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Subject: E5) Which are the largest and smallest tropical cyclones on record?

Typhoon Tip had gale force winds (17 m/s [34 kt, 39 mph]) which extended out for 1100 km [675 mi]in radius in the Northwest Pacific on 12 October, 1979 (Dunnavan and Diercks 1980). Tropical Cyclone Tracy had gale force winds that only extended 50 km [30 mi] radius when it struck Darwin, Australia, on 24 December,1974 (Bureau of Meteorology 1977).

Typhoon Tip vs Tracy
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