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| The appearances of '''tropical cyclones in popular culture''' spans many genres of media and encompasses many different plot uses. | The appearances of '''tropical cyclones in popular culture''' spans many genres of media and encompasses many different plot uses. | ||
| It includes both ]al ]s,{{efn|name=TropCyc}} and real ones used as the basis for a fictional work, and has proven to be of enough interest for the ] ("NOAA") to maintain a webpage on the topic.<ref name="noaafaq">{{cite web|url=http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/J4.html|title=NOAA FAQ: What fictional books, plays, and movies have been written involving tropical cyclones?|publisher=]|accessdate=August 2012}}</ref> | It includes both ]al ]s,{{efn|name=TropCyc}} and real ones used as the basis for a fictional work, and has proven to be of enough interest for the ] ("NOAA") to maintain a webpage on the topic.<ref name="noaafaq">{{cite web|url=http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/J4.html|title=NOAA FAQ: What fictional books, plays, and movies have been written involving tropical cyclones?|publisher=]|accessdate=August 28, 2012}}</ref> | ||
| ==Purpose in fiction and literature== | ==Purpose in fiction and literature== | ||
| Although many forms of natural disaster appear in fiction and literature, tropical cyclones serve a number of useful literary functions because they are both extraordinarily powerful and, to those who have some experience with them, their occurrence can be portended several days in advance. The NOAA page notes that: | Although many forms of natural disaster appear in fiction and literature, tropical cyclones serve a number of useful literary functions because they are both extraordinarily powerful and, to those who have some experience with them, their occurrence can be portended several days in advance. The NOAA page notes that: | ||
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{{blockquote|There is undeniable drama to hurricanes; their massive scale affecting the lives of thousands, the foreshadowing of impending doom, and their ponderous pace as they approach the shore. This has made them ideal plot elements in many fictional works.<ref name="noaafaq" />}} | ||
| The strength of the tropical cyclone has made it a device by which authors explain the upending of characters' lives, and even transformations of the personalities of those who live through such an event. Their somewhat hazy predictability also makes them a useful ], an impetus for characters to set to action. In some instances, the storm provides cover for characters to engage in covert behavior. | The strength of the tropical cyclone has made it a device by which authors explain the upending of characters' lives, and even transformations of the personalities of those who live through such an event. Their somewhat hazy predictability also makes them a useful ], an impetus for characters to set to action. In some instances, the storm provides cover for characters to engage in covert behavior. | ||
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| One of the earliest uses of a tropical cyclone as a plot device occurs in a ] play, '']'', first performed in 1611 or 1612. There, a storm (raised by the sorcerer ]) blows key characters to the island to which Prospero had been exiled many years before. The theme is said to have been inspired by Shakespeare's knowledge of a real-life hurricane which had caused the shipwreck of the '']'' in 1609 on the islands of ], while sailing toward ].<ref name="noaafaq"/> | One of the earliest uses of a tropical cyclone as a plot device occurs in a ] play, '']'', first performed in 1611 or 1612. There, a storm (raised by the sorcerer ]) blows key characters to the island to which Prospero had been exiled many years before. The theme is said to have been inspired by Shakespeare's knowledge of a real-life hurricane which had caused the shipwreck of the '']'' in 1609 on the islands of ], while sailing toward ].<ref name="noaafaq"/> | ||
| ], in his 1841 story, "]", has the main character describe how "the most terrible hurricane that ever came out of the heavens" forced the boat |
], in his 1841 story, "]", has the main character describe how "the most terrible hurricane that ever came out of the heavens" forced the boat crewed by himself and his brothers into a gigantic ].<ref>].</ref> The trauma of surviving the storm and the whirlpool (and seeing the death of his brothers) is asserted to have a profound effect on the character, causing his hair to turn white. However, since the story is asserted to occur off the coast of ], it is unlikely that the event described could have fallen within the formal definition of a hurricane, as such storms form almost exclusively in the ] of ] regions of the globe. | ||
| ], in his acclaimed 1903 book '']'', uses a tropical cyclone as a more direct element of the story, centering the plot on a ship captain's stubborn insistence on going into the heart of such a storm.<ref name="noaafaq"/> | ], in his acclaimed 1903 book '']'', uses a tropical cyclone as a more direct element of the story, centering the plot on a ship captain's stubborn insistence on going into the heart of such a storm.<ref name="noaafaq"/> | ||
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| ====Books and plays==== | ====Books and plays==== | ||
| *'''(Unnamed)''': ''''']''''' (] title: ''The Innocent Voyage''). In this 1929 novel by ], horrific incidents are described from a child's point of view, beginning with the destruction of the family's house by a hurricane. "If Emily had known this was a Hurricane, she would doubtless have been far more impressed, for the word was full of romantic terrors...."<ref>{{cite book| |
*'''(Unnamed)''': ''''']''''' (] title: ''The Innocent Voyage''). In this 1929 novel by ], horrific incidents are described from a child's point of view, beginning with the destruction of the family's house by a hurricane. "If Emily had known this was a Hurricane, she would doubtless have been far more impressed, for the word was full of romantic terrors...."<ref>{{cite book|author-link=Richard Hughes (writer)|first=Richard|last=Hughes|title=]|publisher=The Modern Library|year=1932|page=60}}</ref> | ||
| *'''(Unnamed)''': ''''']''''', a 1938 novel by ]. A single-screw turbine cargo steamer encounters a hurricane off the coast of Cuba.<ref name="noaafaq"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nybooks.com/books/imprints/classics/in-hazard/|title=In Hazard by Richard Hughes|publisher=New York Review Books|accessdate=September 2012}}</ref> Reviewers compared it to ]'s ''Typhoon,'' admired the weather descriptions, complained of "puppet-like" characters.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bibliographing.com/2009/02/18/in-hazard-by-richard-hughes_review/|title=In Hazard by Richard Hughes|publisher=bibliographing.com|accessdate=September 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite |
*'''(Unnamed)''': ''''']''''', a 1938 novel by ]. A single-screw turbine cargo steamer encounters a hurricane off the coast of Cuba.<ref name="noaafaq"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nybooks.com/books/imprints/classics/in-hazard/|title=In Hazard by Richard Hughes|publisher=New York Review Books|accessdate=September 15, 2012}}</ref> Reviewers compared it to ]'s ''Typhoon,'' admired the weather descriptions, complained of "puppet-like" characters.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bibliographing.com/2009/02/18/in-hazard-by-richard-hughes_review/|title=In Hazard by Richard Hughes|date=18 February 2009 |publisher=bibliographing.com|accessdate=September 15, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title="Hurricane at Sea", The Saturday Review, October 8, 1938|author=William Maxwell}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title="Fiction", The North American Review, December 1938}}</ref> | ||
| *'''(Unnamed)''': '''''The Mystery of the Double Double Cross''''' A 1982 novel by Mary Blount Christian prominently features a hurricane hitting Galveston, TX.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.muohio.edu/multifacet/record/mu3ugb1696058|title=The mystery of the double double cross / Mary Blount Christian |
*'''(Unnamed)''': '''''The Mystery of the Double Double Cross''''' A 1982 novel by Mary Blount Christian prominently features a hurricane hitting Galveston, TX.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.muohio.edu/multifacet/record/mu3ugb1696058|title=The mystery of the double double cross / Mary Blount Christian; cover and frontispiece by Marie De John|publisher=Miami University Libraries|accessdate=August 28, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Mary Blount Christian|title=The Mystery of the Double Double Cross|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bDJFAAAACAAJ|year=1982|publisher=A. Whitman|isbn=978-0-8075-5374-9}}</ref> | ||
| *'''Tropical Storm Barney''': The name of an ] ] that strikes ] with winds in excess of {{convert|75|mph|km/h|abbr=on}} in opening of the novel, '']''. The authors describe the storms ] as "...bloated menacing clouds exploding over the open ocean with the unholy force of a mid-air detonation."<ref>{{cite book|first1=Bill|last1=Evans|first2=Marianna|last2=Jameson|title=Category 7: The Biggest Storm in History|publisher=Tor Books|year=2007|page=5}}</ref> This description is the books '']'' for a manipulated storm.<ref name="noaafaq" /><ref name="Cat7">{{cite book|first1=Bill|last1=Evans|first2=Marianna|last2=Jameson|title=Category 7: The Biggest Storm in History|publisher=Tor Books|year=2007|isbn=0-7653-5671- |
*'''Tropical Storm Barney''': The name of an ] ] that strikes ] with winds in excess of {{convert|75|mph|km/h|abbr=on}} in opening of the novel, '']''. The authors describe the storms ] as "...bloated menacing clouds exploding over the open ocean with the unholy force of a mid-air detonation."<ref>{{cite book|first1=Bill|last1=Evans|first2=Marianna|last2=Jameson|title=Category 7: The Biggest Storm in History|publisher=Tor Books|year=2007|page=5}}</ref> This description is the books '']'' for a manipulated storm.<ref name="noaafaq" /><ref name="Cat7">{{cite book|first1=Bill|last1=Evans|first2=Marianna|last2=Jameson|title=Category 7: The Biggest Storm in History|publisher=Tor Books|year=2007|isbn=978-0-7653-5671-0|url=https://archive.org/details/category7thebigg00evan}}</ref> | ||
| *'''Hurricane Claude''': A team of scientists try to use an ] to destroy a ] hurricane following a track similar to that of the ]. Preceded by '''Hurricane Barbara'''.<ref>{{cite journal| |
*'''Hurricane Claude''': A team of scientists try to use an ] to destroy a ] hurricane following a track similar to that of the ]. Preceded by '''Hurricane Barbara'''.<ref>{{cite journal|author-link=Hilbert Schenck|first=Hilbert|last=Schenck|title=Hurricane Claude|journal=]|volume=64|issue=4|date=April 1983}}</ref> | ||
| *'''Hurricane Faith''': ] ] which hits ] with full force, causing a ] that topples the ] and inflicts severe damage on the rest of the city.<ref>{{cite book|first=Max|last=Marlow|title=Her Name Will Be Faith|publisher=New English Library|year=1988|page=415}}</ref> The novels ] prior to the appearance of '''Faith''' is described by one of the characters as "Just five in six weeks since the start of the season. And every one has gone flatter than my wife's pancakes in less than a week".<ref name="Eric">{{cite book|first=Max|last=Marlow|title=Her Name Will Be Faith|publisher=New English Library|year=1988|page=123}}</ref> Of these storms, only hurricanes '''Anthony'''<ref>{{cite book|first=Max|last=Marlow|title=Her Name Will Be Faith|publisher=New English Library|year=1988|page=59}}</ref>(]),<ref>{{cite book|first=Max|last=Marlow|title=Her Name Will Be Faith|publisher=New English Library|year=1988|page=76}}</ref> '''Barbara''',<ref>{{cite book|first=Max|last=Marlow|title=Her Name Will Be Faith|publisher=New English Library|year=1988|page=95}}</ref> '''Christopher'''<ref>{{cite book|first=Max|last=Marlow|title=Her Name Will Be Faith|publisher=New English Library|year=1988|page=99}}</ref> & '''Eric'''<ref name="Eric" /> are named in the novel.<ref>{{cite book|first=Max|last=Marlow|title=Her Name Will Be Faith|publisher=New English Library|year=1988|isbn=0-450-50101-9}}</ref> | *'''Hurricane Faith''': ] ] which hits ] with full force, causing a ] that topples the ] and inflicts severe damage on the rest of the city.<ref>{{cite book|first=Max|last=Marlow|title=Her Name Will Be Faith|publisher=New English Library|year=1988|page=415}}</ref> The novels ] prior to the appearance of '''Faith''' is described by one of the characters as "Just five in six weeks since the start of the season. And every one has gone flatter than my wife's pancakes in less than a week".<ref name="Eric">{{cite book|first=Max|last=Marlow|title=Her Name Will Be Faith|publisher=New English Library|year=1988|page=123}}</ref> Of these storms, only hurricanes '''Anthony'''<ref>{{cite book|first=Max|last=Marlow|title=Her Name Will Be Faith|publisher=New English Library|year=1988|page=59}}</ref>(]),<ref>{{cite book|first=Max|last=Marlow|title=Her Name Will Be Faith|publisher=New English Library|year=1988|page=76}}</ref> '''Barbara''',<ref>{{cite book|first=Max|last=Marlow|title=Her Name Will Be Faith|publisher=New English Library|year=1988|page=95}}</ref> '''Christopher'''<ref>{{cite book|first=Max|last=Marlow|title=Her Name Will Be Faith|publisher=New English Library|year=1988|page=99}}</ref> & '''Eric'''<ref name="Eric" /> are named in the novel.<ref>{{cite book|first=Max|last=Marlow|title=Her Name Will Be Faith|publisher=New English Library|year=1988|isbn=0-450-50101-9}}</ref> | ||
| *'''Hurricane Mabel''': The name of the storm in ]'s 1966 novel ''Wyatt's Hurricane''. The titular scientist predicts the hurricane will strike a small Caribbean island despite what the models show. Local rebels use it to help overthrow the island's dictator. ''Mabel'' is described at the start of the novel as having a central pressure of 870 ] and an outside pressure of 1040 millibars and winds strong enough to classify it as ].<ref>{{cite book| |
*'''Hurricane Mabel''': The name of the storm in ]'s 1966 novel ''Wyatt's Hurricane''. The titular scientist predicts the hurricane will strike a small Caribbean island despite what the models show. Local rebels use it to help overthrow the island's dictator. ''Mabel'' is described at the start of the novel as having a central pressure of 870 ] and an outside pressure of 1040 millibars and winds strong enough to classify it as ].<ref>{{cite book|author-link=Desmond Bagley|first=Desmond|last=Bagley|title=Wyatt's Hurricane|publisher=Fontana|year=1980|page=19}}</ref> Reference is also made in the novel to ] as proof of the ]. Preceded by '''Hurricane Laura'''.<ref>{{cite book|author-link=Desmond Bagley|first=Desmond|last=Bagley|title=Wyatt's Hurricane|publisher=Fontana|year=1980|isbn=0-00-615398-4}}</ref> | ||
| *'''Maria''': The name of the storm in ]'s bestselling 1941 novel, ''].'' Although not, strictly speaking, a hurricane, the storm is highly notable for receiving a woman's name, the first widely known example of such personification. In the novel, a character referred to only as "the Junior Meteorologist" gives storms women's names as a private mental game. Stewart said that he was inspired by reading that "a certain meteorologist had even felt storms to be so personal that he had given them names."<ref name="noaafaq"/> Stewart's book in turn inspired ]'s song "They Call the Wind Maria."<ref name="noaafaq"/> It is widely thought to have influenced ] ], who gave female names to Pacific tropical storms during ].<ref>{{cite book| |
*'''Maria''': The name of the storm in ]'s bestselling 1941 novel, ''].'' Although not, strictly speaking, a hurricane, the storm is highly notable for receiving a woman's name, the first widely known example of such personification. In the novel, a character referred to only as "the Junior Meteorologist" gives storms women's names as a private mental game. Stewart said that he was inspired by reading that "a certain meteorologist had even felt storms to be so personal that he had given them names."<ref name="noaafaq"/> Stewart's book in turn inspired ]'s song "They Call the Wind Maria."<ref name="noaafaq"/> It is widely thought to have influenced ] ], who gave female names to Pacific tropical storms during ].<ref>{{cite book|author-link=George R. Stewart|first=George R.|last=Stewart|title=Storm|year=1983 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |isbn=0-8032-9135-3}}</ref> | ||
| *'''Hurricane Omega''': The name of a ] hurricane threatening the east coast of the United States that is deflected by ] the ].<ref>{{cite journal| |
*'''Hurricane Omega''': The name of a ] hurricane threatening the east coast of the United States that is deflected by ] the ].<ref>{{cite journal|author-link=Ben Bova|first=Ben|last=Bova|title=The Weathermakers|journal=]|volume=88|issue=4|date=December 1966}}</ref> | ||
| *'''Hurricane Simone''': The name of an artificially created storm that threatens to hit ] with a strength of above ] in the novel, ''Category 7: The Biggest Storm in History''. While the storm is successfully ] before it makes landfall, the storm surge it generates devastates the city and topples the ] into the ]. Reference is made to Hurricanes ''']''' & ''']''' as being the products of trial runs of the technology used to create '''Simone''', which was originally developed and tested during the ] by the U.S. Government.<ref name="noaafaq" /><ref name="Cat7"/> | *'''Hurricane Simone''': The name of an artificially created storm that threatens to hit ] with a strength of above ] in the novel, ''Category 7: The Biggest Storm in History''. While the storm is successfully ] before it makes landfall, the storm surge it generates devastates the city and topples the ] into the ]. Reference is made to Hurricanes ''']''' & ''']''' as being the products of trial runs of the technology used to create '''Simone''', which was originally developed and tested during the ] by the U.S. Government.<ref name="noaafaq" /><ref name="Cat7"/> | ||
| ====Television==== | ====Television==== | ||
| *'''(Unnamed)''': ] storm of mysterious origin that threatens ] with winds of over {{convert|250|mph|km/h|abbr=on}} in the first-season episode ''Target Hurricane'' of ]. | |||
| *'''Hurricane Grace''' and '''Hurricane Agatha''': The made-for-] movie '']'', starring ] and ], involves two hurricanes named '''Grace''' and '''Agatha'''. Grace is a Category 5 hurricane that strikes ], where the Stormshield headquarters is located. Agatha downs a plane.<ref name="noaafaq"/> | *'''Hurricane Grace''' and '''Hurricane Agatha''': The made-for-] movie '']'', starring ] and ], involves two hurricanes named '''Grace''' and '''Agatha'''. Grace is a Category 5 hurricane that strikes ], where the Stormshield headquarters is located. Agatha downs a plane.<ref name="noaafaq"/> | ||
| *'''Hurricane Eduardo''': Hit the United States east coast, particularly Florida, in '']'', and later merged with a destructive non-tropical system near ] The resulting storm was more powerful than either of the other two. The NOAA website sums up the somewhat shoddy science as follows: "Falling chunks of the mesosphere combine with urban heat islands to spawn global spanning superstorms." Eduardo is considered as a Category 5 hurricane.<ref name="noaafaq"/> | *'''Hurricane Eduardo''': Hit the United States east coast, particularly Florida, in '']'', and later merged with a destructive non-tropical system near ] The resulting storm was more powerful than either of the other two. The NOAA website sums up the somewhat shoddy science as follows: "Falling chunks of the mesosphere combine with urban heat islands to spawn global spanning superstorms." Eduardo is considered as a Category 5 hurricane.<ref name="noaafaq"/> | ||
| ⚫ | *'''Hurricane Gil''': Hit Miami on a November 9, 1991, multiple ] of '']'' (]), '']'' (]), and '']'' (]), forcing characters from each show to take refuge in the locale of the other two shows.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/the-golden-girls/the-monkey-show-1-5426/|title=The Golden Girls - Season 7, Episode 8:The Monkey Show (1)|publisher=tv.com|accessdate=September 15, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/the-golden-girls/the-monkey-show-2-5427/|title=The Golden Girls - Season 7, Episode 9:The Monkey Show (2)|publisher=tv.com|accessdate=September 15, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/empty-nest/windy-10079/|title=Empty Nest - Season 4, Episode 8:Windy|publisher=tv.com|accessdate=September 15, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/nurses-1991/begone-with-the-wind-67511/|title=Nurses (1991) - Season 1, Episode 9:Begone with the Wind|publisher=tv.com|accessdate=September 15, 2012}}</ref><ref>Ray Broadus Browne, Pat Browne, ''The guide to United States popular culture'' (2001), p. 365.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,316029,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070525111315/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,316029,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 25, 2007|title=Storm Watch: NBC's character crossovers -- Stars from ''Empty Nest,'' ''Golden Girls,'' and ''Nurses'' will appear on each other's shows during a Miami hurricane|publisher=]|author=Alan Carter|accessdate=September 15, 2012}}</ref> | ||
| *'''Hurricane Flozell''': Storm appearing in ], (episode name: ]), and ], (episode name: ]), along with ], (episode name: ]). Category 4 hurricane. Also appears in ].{{citation needed|date=January 2013}} | |||
| ⚫ | *'''Hurricane Hilda''': Massive storm based on ] hits the town of Cassier, Mississippi causing great devastation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071638/|title=Hurricane (TV, 1974)|publisher=]|accessdate=August 28, 2012}}</ref> | ||
| ⚫ | *'''Hurricane Gil''': Hit Miami on a November 9, 1991 multiple ] of '']'' (]), '']'' (]), and '']'' (]), forcing characters from each show to take refuge in the locale of the other two shows.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/the-golden-girls/the-monkey-show-1-5426/|title=The Golden Girls - Season 7, Episode 8:The Monkey Show (1)|publisher=tv.com|accessdate=September 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/the-golden-girls/the-monkey-show-2-5427/|title=The Golden Girls - Season 7, Episode 9:The Monkey Show (2)|publisher=tv.com|accessdate=September 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/empty-nest/windy-10079/|title=Empty Nest - Season 4, Episode 8:Windy|publisher=tv.com|accessdate=September 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/nurses-1991/begone-with-the-wind-67511/|title=Nurses (1991) - Season 1, Episode 9:Begone with the Wind|publisher=tv.com|accessdate=September 2012}}</ref><ref>Ray Broadus Browne, Pat Browne, ''The guide to United States popular culture'' (2001), p. 365.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,316029,00.html|title=Storm Watch: NBC's character crossovers -- Stars from ''Empty Nest,'' ''Golden Girls,'' and ''Nurses'' will appear on each other's shows during a Miami hurricane|publisher=]|author=Alan Carter|accessdate=September 2012}}</ref> | ||
| ⚫ | *'''Super Typhoon Vipa''': a massive storm makes a direct hit on ] causing death and destruction in the ] series ']'. Category 5 typhoon.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/perfect-disaster/super-typhoon-682203/|title=Perfect Disaster - Season 1, Episode 3:Super Typhoon|publisher=TV.com|accessdate=August 28, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://emptyswings.blogspot.com.au/2010/10/2008-typhoon-nuri-2009-typhoon-molave.html|title=Hong Kong - typhoons in the past and future|first=Michelle|last=Tang|publisher=emptyswings.blogspot.com.au|date=October 24, 2010|accessdate=August 28, 2012}}</ref> | ||
| ⚫ | *'''Hurricane Hilda''': Massive storm based on ] hits the town of Cassier, Mississippi causing great devastation.<ref>{{cite web|url= |
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| ⚫ | *'''Super Typhoon Vipa''': a massive storm makes a direct hit on ] causing death and destruction in the ] series ']'. Category 5 typhoon.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/perfect-disaster/super-typhoon-682203/|title=Perfect Disaster - Season 1, Episode 3:Super Typhoon|publisher=TV.com|accessdate=August 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://emptyswings.blogspot.com.au/2010/10/2008-typhoon-nuri-2009-typhoon-molave.html|title=Hong Kong - typhoons in the past and future|first=Michelle|last=Tang|publisher=emptyswings.blogspot.com.au|date=October 24, 2010|accessdate=August 2012}}</ref> | ||
| ====Music==== | ====Music==== | ||
| *'''(Unnamed)''': ] dreams of a hurricane in his song ''Savannah Fare You Well.'' The hurricane produces heavy rainfall which kills the songwriter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.margaritaville.com/lyrics_fsotw.ph|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070512210409/http://www.margaritaville.com/lyrics_fsotw.php|title=Far Side of the World - Lyrics|publisher=Jimmy Buffett's MARGARITAVILLE.com|archivedate=12 May 2007|accessdate=September 2012}}</ref> | *'''(Unnamed)''': ] dreams of a hurricane in his song ''Savannah Fare You Well.'' The hurricane produces heavy rainfall which kills the songwriter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.margaritaville.com/lyrics_fsotw.ph|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070512210409/http://www.margaritaville.com/lyrics_fsotw.php|title=Far Side of the World - Lyrics|publisher=Jimmy Buffett's MARGARITAVILLE.com|archivedate=12 May 2007|accessdate=September 15, 2012}}</ref> | ||
| *'''(Various)''': ] has penned a number of songs describing the effects of unnanmed tropical cyclones. In his ] song ''Trying to Reason with the Hurricane Season'' he describes a storm in the ] with winds greater than 60 mph. The storm produces rough seas and grey skies in southeastern ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://margaritaville.com/lyrics_a1a.php|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070606035833/http://margaritaville.com/lyrics_a1a.php|title=A1A - Lyrics|publisher=Jimmy Buffett's MARGARITAVILLE.com|archivedate=6 June 2007|accessdate=September 2012}}</ref> In ''Nobody Speaks to the Captain No More'' on his ] album, a fugitive captain loses his mind during a hurricane when a coconut hits him in the head.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.margaritaville.com/lyrics_floridays.php|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070411014809/http://www.margaritaville.com/lyrics_floridays.php|title=Floridays - Lyrics|publisher=Jimmy Buffett's MARGARITAVILLE.com|archivedate=11 April 2007|accessdate=September 2012}}</ref> Buffett describes a sailor who goes through several hurricanes and typhoons in his ] song ''A Sailor's Christmas''."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.margaritaville.com/lyrics_christmas.php|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070411050945/http://www.margaritaville.com/lyrics_christmas.php|title=Christmas Island - Lyrics|publisher=Jimmy Buffett's MARGARITAVILLE.com|archivedate=11 April 2007|accessdate=September 2012}}</ref> Finally, several hurricanes affect the fictional ] island of Kinja in the Jimmy Buffett song ''].''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.margaritaville.com/lyrics_dstc.php|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070411005632/http://www.margaritaville.com/lyrics_dstc.php|title=Don't Stop the Carnival - Lyrics|publisher=Jimmy Buffett's MARGARITAVILLE.com|archivedate=11 April 2007|accessdate=September 2012}}</ref> | *'''(Various)''': ] has penned a number of songs describing the effects of unnanmed tropical cyclones. In his ] song ''Trying to Reason with the Hurricane Season'' he describes a storm in the ] with winds greater than 60 mph. The storm produces rough seas and grey skies in southeastern ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://margaritaville.com/lyrics_a1a.php|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070606035833/http://margaritaville.com/lyrics_a1a.php|title=A1A - Lyrics|publisher=Jimmy Buffett's MARGARITAVILLE.com|archivedate=6 June 2007|accessdate=September 15, 2012}}</ref> In ''Nobody Speaks to the Captain No More'' on his ] album, a fugitive captain loses his mind during a hurricane when a coconut hits him in the head.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.margaritaville.com/lyrics_floridays.php|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070411014809/http://www.margaritaville.com/lyrics_floridays.php|title=Floridays - Lyrics|publisher=Jimmy Buffett's MARGARITAVILLE.com|archivedate=11 April 2007|accessdate=September 15, 2012}}</ref> Buffett describes a sailor who goes through several hurricanes and typhoons in his '']'' song ''A Sailor's Christmas''."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.margaritaville.com/lyrics_christmas.php|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070411050945/http://www.margaritaville.com/lyrics_christmas.php|title=Christmas Island - Lyrics|publisher=Jimmy Buffett's MARGARITAVILLE.com|archivedate=11 April 2007|accessdate=September 15, 2012}}</ref> Finally, several hurricanes affect the fictional ] island of Kinja in the Jimmy Buffett song ''].''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.margaritaville.com/lyrics_dstc.php|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070411005632/http://www.margaritaville.com/lyrics_dstc.php|title=Don't Stop the Carnival - Lyrics|publisher=Jimmy Buffett's MARGARITAVILLE.com|archivedate=11 April 2007|accessdate=September 15, 2012}}</ref> | ||
| *'''(Unnamed)''': ] sings a warning about hearing "hurricanes a-blowing" and fearing "rivers overflowing," among other disasters, in band frontman ]'s apocalyptic '']''. | *'''(Unnamed)''': ] sings a warning about hearing "hurricanes a-blowing" and fearing "rivers overflowing," among other disasters, in band frontman ]'s apocalyptic '']''. | ||
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| *'''(Unnamed)''': A hurricane striking the South Carolina setting is a major turning point of the 1925 novel '']'', and its later adaptation, the subsequent 1935 opera '']'', as well as the 1959 movie version.<ref name="noaafaq"/> The storm causes the death of key characters, causing a sudden change in the direction of the story. | *'''(Unnamed)''': A hurricane striking the South Carolina setting is a major turning point of the 1925 novel '']'', and its later adaptation, the subsequent 1935 opera '']'', as well as the 1959 movie version.<ref name="noaafaq"/> The storm causes the death of key characters, causing a sudden change in the direction of the story. | ||
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| *'''(Unnamed)''': '']''. A pivotal point of the story involves the hurricane that strikes the small island where the two main characters are marooned.<ref>{{cite book| |
*'''(Unnamed)''': '']''. A pivotal point of the story involves the hurricane that strikes the small island where the two main characters are marooned.<ref>{{cite book|author-link=Theodore Taylor (author)|first=Theodore|last=Taylor|title=The Cay|year=1969|publisher=Random House Children's Books |isbn=0-440-41663-9}}</ref> Phillip, a prejudiced, blind, white child, is stranded with the elderly black Timothy. The pair deals with a hurricane that passes across the island by lashing themselves to a sturdy palm. The storm injures the eighty-year-old Timothy, who slowly dies afterwards. | ||
| *'''(Unnamed)''': In the 1966 ] ''Hunter-Killer'' by ], the heroes use the ] by an ] cyclone to evade a search by the ]'s ].<ref>{{cite book| |
*'''(Unnamed)''': In the 1966 ] ''Hunter-Killer'' by ], the heroes use the ] by an ] cyclone to evade a search by the ]'s ].<ref>{{cite book|author-link=Geoffrey Jenkins|first=Geoffrey|last=Jenkins|title=Hunter-Killer|publisher=Fontana|year=1989|isbn=0-00-616199-5}}</ref> | ||
| *'''(Unnamed)''': In ]s 1966 novel ''Path of the Storm'', the author uses a ] ] with a strength of at least ] as the reason for the hero and his ship to return to the ]ese island they have just left in time to prevent an invasion by ].<ref>{{cite book| |
*'''(Unnamed)''': In ]s 1966 novel ''Path of the Storm'', the author uses a ] ] with a strength of at least ] as the reason for the hero and his ship to return to the ]ese island they have just left in time to prevent an invasion by ].<ref>{{cite book|author-link=Douglas Reeman|first=Douglas|last=Reeman|title=Path of the Storm|publisher=Arrow Books|year=1984|isbn=0-09-907070-7}}</ref> | ||
| *'''(Unnamed)''': A ] hurricane threatening ] in the science-fiction thriller ''Gravity'' by ]. It forces the seriously ill crew of the ] |
*'''(Unnamed)''': A ] hurricane threatening ] in the science-fiction thriller ''Gravity'' by ]. It forces the seriously ill crew of the ] to make an attempt to land at ].<ref>{{cite book|author-link=Tess Gerritsen|first=Tess|last=Gerritsen|title=Gravity|url=https://archive.org/details/gravitygerri00gerr|url-access=registration|publisher=Pocket Books|year=1999|isbn=0-671-01677-6}}</ref> | ||
| *'''Hurricane Adele''': The name of the storm in ]'s '']''. Described by the author as "...a small, weak, disorganized hurricane, now turning back into a tropical storm..."<ref>{{cite book| |
*'''Hurricane Adele''': The name of the storm in ]'s '']''. Described by the author as "...a small, weak, disorganized hurricane, now turning back into a tropical storm..."<ref>{{cite book|author-link=Tom Clancy|first=Tom|last=Clancy|title=Clear and Present Danger|publisher=Fontana|year=1989|page=795}}</ref> its presence complicates a tricky rescue mission.<ref>{{cite book|author-link=Tom Clancy|first=Tom|last=Clancy|title=Clear and Present Danger|publisher=Fontana|year=1989|isbn=0-00-617730-1|url=https://archive.org/details/clearpresentdan000clan}}</ref> | ||
| *'''Cyclone ''Alpha''''': In the 1972 novel (Set sometime between 1959 and 1965.) ''The Moonraker Mutiny'' by ], a ship's captain drunkenly applies his experience of ]s to a ] Indian Ocean cyclone. As a result, the ship sails into the heart of the storm and is crippled, triggering the mutiny of the title.<ref>{{cite book|first=Anthony|last=Trew|title=The Moonraker Mutiny|publisher=Fontana|year=1972|isbn=0-00-615008-X}}</ref> | *'''Cyclone ''Alpha''''': In the 1972 novel (Set sometime between 1959 and 1965.) ''The Moonraker Mutiny'' by ], a ship's captain drunkenly applies his experience of ]s to a ] Indian Ocean cyclone. As a result, the ship sails into the heart of the storm and is crippled, triggering the mutiny of the title.<ref>{{cite book|first=Anthony|last=Trew|title=The Moonraker Mutiny|publisher=Fontana|year=1972|isbn=0-00-615008-X}}</ref> | ||
| *'''Hurricane Amanda''': The name of the ] level storm in ]'s '']''. The Soviet Navy used the storm as cover to board the newly raised ship in an attempt to sabotage the retrieval of a rare (fictional) mineral, byzanium, for use in an ].<ref>{{cite book| |
*'''Hurricane Amanda''': The name of the ] level storm in ]'s '']''. The Soviet Navy used the storm as cover to board the newly raised ship in an attempt to sabotage the retrieval of a rare (fictional) mineral, byzanium, for use in an ].<ref>{{cite book|author-link=Clive Cussler|first=Clive|last=Cussler|title=]|publisher=]|year=1980|isbn=0-7221-2750-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.raisethetitanic.com/novel/concordance.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080310225652/http://www.raisethetitanic.com/novel/concordance.html|title=Un-Official Raise The Titanic! Novel-Concordance Page|archivedate=10 March 2008|accessdate=August 28, 2012}}</ref> | ||
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*'''Hurricane Annabelle''': The name of the hurricane in the 1939 set novel ''Slade's Marauder'' by Steven Cade. It prevents the hero's ship from escaping a German ].{{efn|The name is anachronistic, at the time the story is set hurricanes were not named.}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Cade|first=Steven|title=Slade's Marauder|publisher=Fontana Books|year=1980|isbn=0-00-616056-5}}</ref> | ||
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*'''Hurricane Ben''': The name of the storm in G.M. Hagues ''Ghost Beyond Earth''. The hurricane prevents ] from sending a ] to the crew of ] until the end of the novel.<ref>{{cite book|first=G M|last=Hague|title=Ghost Beyond Earth|publisher=Pan|year=1993|isbn=1-86515-633-7|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/ghostbeyondearth0000hagu}}</ref> | ||
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*'''Typhoon Bernard''': The name of the storm that delays the arrival of Soviet ships coming to pick up a sabotage party in '']'' by Lee Correy.<ref>{{cite journal|first=Lee|last=Correy|title=Shuttle Down (Pt 4)|journal=Analog Magazine|volume=101|issue=3|date=March 1981}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author-link=G. Harry Stine|first=Lee|last=Correy|title=Shuttle Down|publisher=Del Rey Books|year=1981|isbn=0-345-29262-6}}</ref> | ||
| *'''Hurricane Carmen''': In the novel ''The Lies We Told'' by Diane Chamberlain, this ] hurricane strikes the area around ], ] causing widespread damage and for the two major characters beginning a sequence of events that leads both to question the direction of their lives. Succeeded by Hurricanes '''Donald''' and '''Erin''', the latter of which also reaches Category Four.<ref>{{cite book|first=Diane|last=Chamberlain|title=The Lies We Told|publisher=]|year=2010|isbn=978-192168574-3}}</ref> | |||
| *'''Hurricane Dana''': In Karen Harper's romantic thriller, ''Hurricane'', the villains try to use the effects of the storm and its passage to cover up a series of murders.<ref>{{cite book|last=Harper|first=Karen|title=Hurricane|url=https://archive.org/details/hurricane00harp|url-access=registration|publisher=]|year=2006|isbn=1-741-16338-2}}</ref> | |||
| *'''Typhoon Donald''': Named by "...a wit in the ]...",<ref>{{cite book|first=John|last=Watson|title=The Iron Man|publisher=]|year=1998|page=180}}</ref> this ] typhoon is used by the crew of the pirate ] ''Stalin'' to conceal their approach on the first of their targets in the novel ''The Iron Man'' by John Watson. Preceded by '''Typhoon Charlie'''<ref>{{cite book|first=John|last=Watson|title=The Iron Man|publisher=]|year=1998|isbn=0-7515-2147-7}}</ref> | *'''Typhoon Donald''': Named by "...a wit in the ]...",<ref>{{cite book|first=John|last=Watson|title=The Iron Man|publisher=]|year=1998|page=180}}</ref> this ] typhoon is used by the crew of the pirate ] ''Stalin'' to conceal their approach on the first of their targets in the novel ''The Iron Man'' by John Watson. Preceded by '''Typhoon Charlie'''<ref>{{cite book|first=John|last=Watson|title=The Iron Man|publisher=]|year=1998|isbn=0-7515-2147-7}}</ref> | ||
| *'''Tropical Storm Hannah''': The name of a storm that hits the ] unexpectedly in the novel ''Star Shot'' by ]. The author uses it to show the skill and determination of the hero.<ref>{{cite book|first=Douglas|last=Terman| |
*'''Tropical Storm Hannah''': The name of a storm that hits the ] unexpectedly in the novel ''Star Shot'' by ]. The author uses it to show the skill and determination of the hero.<ref>{{cite book|first=Douglas|last=Terman|author-link=Douglas Terman|title=Star Shot|publisher=]|year=1990|isbn=0-00-223563-3}}</ref> | ||
| *'''Hurricane Herman''': In '']'' (the third book of ] '']''), this hurricane demolishes Aunt Josephine's home. Later on in the book, ], ], and ] endure the brunt of the storm while searching for their aunt.<ref>Lemony Snicket. '']''. ISBN |
*'''Hurricane Herman''': In '']'' (the third book of ] '']''), this hurricane demolishes Aunt Josephine's home. Later on in the book, ], ], and ] endure the brunt of the storm while searching for their aunt.<ref>Lemony Snicket. '']''. {{ISBN|0-06-440768-3}}</ref> | ||
| *'''Hurricane Hope''': Kristen Ethridge's ] series spanning five books focuses on the impact of Hurricane Hope on the fictional Texas gulf coast town of Port Provident. Ethridge based the books on her own experiences going through 2008's ] in ]. | *'''Hurricane Hope''': Kristen Ethridge's ] series spanning five books focuses on the impact of Hurricane Hope on the fictional Texas gulf coast town of Port Provident. Ethridge based the books on her own experiences going through 2008's ] in ]. | ||
| *'''Hurricane Joyce''': The name of the monstrous, continent-spanning storm ] ] ] into the North Atlantic in the 1978 novel ''The Hermes Fall'' by ]. Powered in part by the heat of the asteroid's impact, the hurricane produces wind speeds "...more than double the record of 171 knots - almost two hundred miles an hour set by the hurricane in ]."<ref>{{cite book|first=John|last=Baxter| |
*'''Hurricane Joyce''': The name of the monstrous, continent-spanning storm ] ] ] into the North Atlantic in the 1978 novel ''The Hermes Fall'' by ]. Powered in part by the heat of the asteroid's impact, the hurricane produces wind speeds "...more than double the record of 171 knots - almost two hundred miles an hour set by the hurricane in ]."<ref>{{cite book|first=John|last=Baxter|author-link=John Baxter (author)|title=The Hermes Fall|publisher=Granada (Panther)|year=1978|page=232}}</ref> (e.g. ]) near the ] as it makes its way up the eastern coast of the United States.<ref>{{cite book|first=John|last=Baxter|author-link=John Baxter (author)|title=The Hermes Fall|publisher=Granada (Panther)|year=1978|isbn=0-586-04610-0|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/hermesfall0000baxt}}</ref> | ||
| *'''Hurricane Juanita''': In ]s novel ''The Killing Storm'', the hunt for a boy kidnapped by a ] is complicated by a ] hurricane on a course to strike ].<ref>{{cite book| |
*'''Hurricane Juanita''': In ]s novel ''The Killing Storm'', the hunt for a boy kidnapped by a ] is complicated by a ] hurricane on a course to strike ].<ref>{{cite book|author-link=Kathryn Casey|first=Kathryn|last=Casey|title=The Killing Storm|publisher=Minotaur Books|year=2010|isbn=978-0-312-37952-0}}</ref> | ||
| *'''Hurricane Little Eva''': The name of the storm in ]'s '']''. Described as "...a small blow with a diameter no more than sixty miles wide."<ref>{{cite book|first=Clive|last=Cussler| |
*'''Hurricane Little Eva''': The name of the storm in ]'s '']''. Described as "...a small blow with a diameter no more than sixty miles wide."<ref>{{cite book|first=Clive|last=Cussler|author-link=Clive Cussler|title=Cyclops|publisher=]|year=1987|page=131}}</ref> The storm strands the heroes on an island used by the Soviets as an electronic intelligence post.<ref name="Cyclops">{{cite book|first=Clive|last=Cussler|author-link=Clive Cussler|title=Cyclops|publisher=]|year=1987|isbn=0-7221-2756-1}}</ref> | ||
| *'''Hurricane Lorna''': ] hurricane that threatens environmental havoc in ]s ''Hungry As The Sea'', the storm is disrupted when the cargo of the |
*'''Hurricane Lorna''': ] hurricane that threatens environmental havoc in ]s ''Hungry As The Sea'', the storm is disrupted when the cargo of the world's largest ] is ignited at its heart.<ref>{{cite book|author-link=Wilbur Smith|first=Wilbur|last=Smith|title=Hungry As The Sea|publisher=Pan Books|year=1978|isbn=0-330-25798-6}}</ref> | ||
| *'''Typhoon Louise''': In the 1986 thriller ''Tsunami'', the hero investigates the sinking of a ship off the coast of ] by this storm, uncovering evidence that the storm has been used to cover up ].<ref>{{cite book| |
*'''Typhoon Louise''': In the 1986 thriller ''Tsunami'', the hero investigates the sinking of a ship off the coast of ] by this storm, uncovering evidence that the storm has been used to cover up ].<ref>{{cite book|author-link=Stephen Barlay|first=Stephen|last=Barlay|title=Tsunami|publisher=Hamish Hamilton|year=1986|isbn=0-241-11721-6}}</ref> | ||
| *'''Hurricane Odin''': The name of a ] hurricane, that forces the hero's plane to crash near a small Caribbean island being used by nuclear smugglers in the novel ''Second Wind'' by ]. Preceded by '''Hurricane Nicky'''(])<ref>{{cite book| |
*'''Hurricane Odin''': The name of a ] hurricane, that forces the hero's plane to crash near a small Caribbean island being used by nuclear smugglers in the novel ''Second Wind'' by ]. Preceded by '''Hurricane Nicky'''(])<ref>{{cite book|author-link=Dick Francis|first=Dick|last=Francis|title=Second Wind|url=https://archive.org/details/secondwind000fran|url-access=registration|publisher=Michael Joseph|year=1999|page=|isbn=9780718144258 }}</ref> and followed by '''Hurricane Sheila'''<ref>{{cite book|author-link=Dick Francis|first=Dick|last=Francis|title=Second Wind|url=https://archive.org/details/secondwind000fran|url-access=registration|publisher=Michael Joseph|year=1999|page=|isbn=9780718144258 }}</ref> (after two unnamed storms),<ref>{{cite book|author-link=Dick Francis|first=Dick|last=Francis|title=Second Wind|url=https://archive.org/details/secondwind000fran|url-access=registration|publisher=Michael Joseph|year=1999|isbn=0-7181-4408-2}}</ref> | ||
| *'''Hurricane Queenie''': The name of a ] hurricane that strikes New York City on the night of 4 August 1970<ref name="Queenie1">{{cite book|first=Judith|last=Kelman|title=Summer of Storms|publisher=Jove|year=2001|page=1}}</ref> in the opening of the novel ''Summer of Storms'' by ]. The author describes the storm as the "...feisty and temperamental..." |
*'''Hurricane Phyllis''': The name of a ] hurricane that strikes ] in the 1970 novel ''Killers at Sea'' by ].{{efn|A pseudonym for author John Messmann.}} The storm reveals the true nature of one character and allows the hero to escape his pursuers in the climax of the story.<ref>{{cite book|first=John|last=Messman|title=Killers At Sea|publisher=Cutting Edge Books|year=2022|asin=B09YDFR81J}}</ref> | ||
| *'''Hurricane Queenie''': The name of a ] hurricane that strikes New York City on the night of 4 August 1970<ref name="Queenie1">{{cite book|first=Judith|last=Kelman|title=Summer of Storms|publisher=Jove|year=2001|page=1}}</ref> in the opening of the novel ''Summer of Storms'' by ]. The author describes the storm as the "...feisty and temperamental..."<ref>{{cite book|first=Judith|last=Kelman|title=Summer of Storms|publisher=Jove|year=2001|page=2}}</ref> seventeenth storm in a season where "Sixteen tropical disturbances had pummeled ] islands and ] seaboard towns since the ] began its annual six-month count in early June. Twelve of those had grown into full-fledged hurricanes, and six, triple the normal number, had intensified to the most lethal categories...".<ref name="Queenie1" /> '''Queenie''''s furious arrival in New York City provides the cover for a brutal murder. {{efn|Using the ] the name for this storm would actually have been ''Rena''}}<ref>{{cite book|first=Judith|last=Kelman|title=Summer of Storms|publisher=Jove|year=2001|isbn=0-515-13290-X|url=https://archive.org/details/summerofstormskelm00kelm}}</ref> | |||
| *'''Typhoon Rose''': The name of a ] tropical storm that strikes Hong Kong with winds of up to {{convert|190|mph|km/h|abbr=on}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Davis|year=1979|page=321}}</ref> in the novel ''Typhoon'' by John Gordon Davis. It triggers massive landslides, kills several of the novel's main characters and provides the impetus for the hero's final encounter with the novels major villain.<ref>{{cite book|last=Davis|first=John Gordon|title=Typhoon|publisher=]|year=1979|isbn=0-552-11185-6}}</ref> | *'''Typhoon Rose''': The name of a ] tropical storm that strikes Hong Kong with winds of up to {{convert|190|mph|km/h|abbr=on}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Davis|year=1979|page=321}}</ref> in the novel ''Typhoon'' by John Gordon Davis. It triggers massive landslides, kills several of the novel's main characters and provides the impetus for the hero's final encounter with the novels major villain.<ref>{{cite book|last=Davis|first=John Gordon|title=Typhoon|publisher=]|year=1979|isbn=0-552-11185-6}}</ref> | ||
| *'''Hurricane Sigrid''': The name of the ] hurricane that complicates attempts to deal with a madman's home-made nuclear weapon over Washington DC in the novel ''Medusa's Child'' by ]<ref>{{cite book| |
*'''Hurricane Sigrid''': The name of the ] hurricane that complicates attempts to deal with a madman's home-made nuclear weapon over Washington DC in the novel ''Medusa's Child'' by ]<ref>{{cite book|author-link=John J. Nance|first=John J.|last=Nance|title=Medusa's Child|publisher=Pan|year=1998|isbn=0-330-35428-0}}</ref> | ||
| *'''Hurricane Simone''': ] hurricane that strikes ] south of ] as a category three storm, triggering a chain of events that lead to a bloody shootout at an illegal geophysical laboratory in the ].<ref>]. ''Acts of Nature''. ISBN |
*'''Hurricane Simone''': ] hurricane that strikes ] south of ] as a category three storm, triggering a chain of events that lead to a bloody shootout at an illegal geophysical laboratory in the ].<ref>]. ''Acts of Nature''. {{ISBN|978-0-451-22420-0}}</ref> | ||
| *'''Hurricane Tricia''': The name of the storm in James Follett's novel ''Ice''. Its arrival complicates attempts to tow a gigantic ] away from a collision with the North American ].<ref>{{cite book| |
*'''Hurricane Tricia''': The name of the storm in James Follett's novel ''Ice''. Its arrival complicates attempts to tow a gigantic ] away from a collision with the North American ].<ref>{{cite book|author-link=James Follett|first=James|last=Follett|title=Ice|publisher=Mandarin|year=1989|isbn=0-7493-0110-4}}</ref> | ||
| *'''(Various)''': ''Hurricane Punch'', a comedic thriller by ] in which a misanthropic serial killer and his bumbling partner-in-crime take an impromptu storm-chasing trek across ] with a kidnapped journalist in tow.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://j-leigh-nelson.livejournal.com/47848.html|title=The Evidence Locker - Book Review: Hurricane Punch|first=J. Leigh|last=Nelson|publisher=The Evidence Locker Blog|date=May 22, 2010|accessdate=September 2012}}</ref> | *'''(Various)''': ''Hurricane Punch'', a comedic thriller by ] in which a misanthropic serial killer and his bumbling partner-in-crime take an impromptu storm-chasing trek across ] with a kidnapped journalist in tow.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://j-leigh-nelson.livejournal.com/47848.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121225141215/http://j-leigh-nelson.livejournal.com/47848.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 25, 2012 |title=The Evidence Locker - Book Review: Hurricane Punch |first=J. Leigh |last=Nelson |publisher=The Evidence Locker Blog |date=May 22, 2010 |accessdate=September 15, 2012 }}</ref> | ||
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| *'''(Unnamed)''': A 1978 hurricane mentioned in '']'' episode "Hurricane Neddy" which blew down Hall of Records, but was never officially confirmed.<ref name="simpsons">{{cite web|url=http://tv.yahoo.com/the-simpsons/show/hurricane-neddy/episode/618 |title=Hurricane Neddy – Episode Overview |publisher=Yahoo! TV |accessdate=2008-02-26 | |
*'''(Unnamed)''': A 1978 hurricane mentioned in '']'' episode "Hurricane Neddy" which blew down Hall of Records, but was never officially confirmed.<ref name="simpsons">{{cite web|url=http://tv.yahoo.com/the-simpsons/show/hurricane-neddy/episode/618 |title=Hurricane Neddy – Episode Overview |publisher=Yahoo! TV |accessdate=2008-02-26 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107233430/http://tv.yahoo.com/the-simpsons/show/hurricane-neddy/episode/618 |archivedate=November 7, 2012 }}</ref> | ||
| *'''Hurricane Anthony''': A couple trying to escape this hurricane strikes a man with their car in the '']'' episode ].<ref name="CSIMiami">{{cite web|url=http://www. |
*'''Hurricane Anthony''': A couple trying to escape this hurricane strikes a man with their car in the '']'' episode ].<ref name="CSIMiami">{{cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/detail/tv-show.aspx?episodeid%3D3962744%26tvobjectid%3D100101%26more%3Ducepisodelist |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090416200409/http://www.tvguide.com/detail/tv-show.aspx?tvobjectid=100101&more=ucepisodelist&episodeid=3962744 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-04-16 |title=CSI: Miami Episodes – Episode Detail: Hurricane Anthony |publisher=TV Guide |accessdate=2008-02-25 }}</ref> | ||
| *'''Hurricane Elizabeth''': Artificially created ] hurricane targeted at Los Angeles in the film ]. The film's opening reveals that ] was the result of an earlier test of the same technology.,<ref>{{cite web|url= |
*'''Hurricane Barbara''': Hit ] in '']'' episode "]." Destroyed ]'s house, picked up ]'s Bowlerama and dumped it on a nearby hill.<ref name="simpsons" /> | ||
| *'''Hurricane Elizabeth''': Artificially created ] hurricane targeted at Los Angeles in the film ]. The film's opening reveals that ] was the result of an earlier test of the same technology.,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165498/|title=Storm (Video 1999)|publisher=]|accessdate=August 28, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.millionmonkeytheater.com/Storm.html|title=Storm: Review|publisher=Million Monkey Theater|accessdate=August 28, 2012}}</ref> | |||
| *'''Hurricane Eve''': Hit ], ] on the premiere episode of '']''. Believed to be cover for ] activity. Had a pressure of 936 ]; according to '']'', a Category three on the ]. The NOAA website notes that "he series was cancelled after its initial season, with no resolution to the question, 'Does global warming cause more squid people?'"<ref name="noaafaq"/> | *'''Hurricane Eve''': Hit ], ] on the premiere episode of '']''. Believed to be cover for ] activity. Had a pressure of 936 ]; according to '']'', a Category three on the ]. The NOAA website notes that "he series was cancelled after its initial season, with no resolution to the question, 'Does global warming cause more squid people?'"<ref name="noaafaq"/> | ||
| *'''Hurricane Lenore''': Shown in the '']'' episode "Conor McNamara, 2026". Struck Miami.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/niptuck-2006/episode-11-season-4/conor-mcnamara-2026/100325|title=Nip/Tuck Episode Guide 2006 Season 4 - Conor McNamara, 2026, Episode 11|publisher=tvguide.com|accessdate=September 2012}}</ref> | *'''Hurricane Lenore''': Shown in the '']'' episode "Conor McNamara, 2026". Struck Miami.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/niptuck-2006/episode-11-season-4/conor-mcnamara-2026/100325|title=Nip/Tuck Episode Guide 2006 Season 4 - Conor McNamara, 2026, Episode 11|publisher=tvguide.com|accessdate=September 15, 2012}}</ref> | ||
| ⚫ | *'''Hurricane Norman''': Shown on the '']'' episode "]." Hit ] with downed ]s, several damaged buildings, and downed trees and brush...<ref name="familyguy">{{cite web |url=http://www.starpulse.com/movie/Family_Guy%3A_One_if_By_Clam%2C_Two_if_By_Sea/V299545/0/2/ |title=Family Guy: One if by Clam, Two if by Sea – Summary |publisher=starpulse.com |accessdate=2008-02-26 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090406060538/http://www.starpulse.com/movie/Family_Guy%3A_One_if_By_Clam%2C_Two_if_By_Sea/V299545/0/2/ |archivedate=April 6, 2009 }}</ref> | ||
| *'''Tropical Storm Renee''': Shown in the '']'' episode "]." Struck before 1981, experienced by umbrella salesmen Teddy Padillac and Jerry Seinfeld. The storm dropped heavy rainfall, resulting in good business for the two salesmen.<ref></ref> | *'''Tropical Storm Renee''': Shown in the '']'' episode "]." Struck before 1981, experienced by umbrella salesmen Teddy Padillac and Jerry Seinfeld. The storm dropped heavy rainfall, resulting in good business for the two salesmen.<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090412033608/http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheChecks.html |date=2009-04-12 }}</ref> | ||
| ⚫ | *'''Hurricane |
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| *'''Hurricane Robert''': Mentioned in an episode of '']'' as having wiped out half of Miami and Hilary refers to it as Bobby to "...spread a little sunshine".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098800/quotes|title=The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990) - Memorable Quotes|publisher=]|accessdate=September 15, 2012}}</ref> | |||
| *'''Hurricane ]''': Massive storm headed for Quahog in the '']'' episode "]".<ref name=squad>{{cite web|url= http://www.tvsquad.com/2005/09/18/family-guy-perfect-castaway/|publisher=]|title=Perfect Castaway|accessdate=2012-01-09|author=Ryan J Budke}}</ref> | *'''Hurricane ]''': Massive storm headed for Quahog in the '']'' episode "]".<ref name=squad>{{cite web|url= http://www.tvsquad.com/2005/09/18/family-guy-perfect-castaway/|publisher=]|title=Perfect Castaway|accessdate=2012-01-09|author=Ryan J Budke}}</ref> | ||
| *'''Hurricane Sarah''': Strikes the US east coast causing damage to the US fleet in |
*'''Hurricane Sarah''': Strikes the US east coast causing damage to the US fleet in '']'' episode "]".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.episodelist.com/episodes/the-west-wing/season-1/the-state-dinner/21587|title=The State Dinner-Season 1-The West Wing Episode Guide|publisher=The West Wing Episode Guide|accessdate=August 28, 2012}}</ref> | ||
| *'''Scrambles the Death Dealer''': Strikes Florida, devastating the state in the '']'' episode "Dethgov".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.adultswim.com/videos/metalocalypse/weather-bureau/|title=Weather Bureau|publisher=Adult Swim|accessdate=September 15, 2017}}</ref> | |||
| ====Theatrical films==== | ====Theatrical films==== | ||
| * '''(Unnamed)''': In the 1948 film, '']'', gangsters who have taken over a small hotel in the title locale are delayed in their planned getaway by a hurricane.<ref name="noaafaq" /> In one exchange, a gang member asks another, "what all happens in a hurricane?" to which the other replies, "The wind blows so hard the ocean gets up on its hind legs and walks right across the land." Later, the leader of the gang is shaken by the presence of the storm, leading Frank McCloud, the protagonist of the film, to say, "You don't like it, do you Rocco, the storm? Show it your gun, why don't you? If it doesn't stop, shoot it."<ref>{{cite web|url= |
* '''(Unnamed)''': In the 1948 film, '']'', gangsters who have taken over a small hotel in the title locale are delayed in their planned getaway by a hurricane.<ref name="noaafaq" /> In one exchange, a gang member asks another, "what all happens in a hurricane?" to which the other replies, "The wind blows so hard the ocean gets up on its hind legs and walks right across the land." Later, the leader of the gang is shaken by the presence of the storm, leading Frank McCloud, the protagonist of the film, to say, "You don't like it, do you Rocco, the storm? Show it your gun, why don't you? If it doesn't stop, shoot it."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040506/quotes|title=Key Largo(1948) - Memorable quotes|publisher=]|accessdate=September 15, 2012}}</ref> | ||
| *'''(Unnamed)''': The 1999 film '']'' had a tugboat crew seek refuge during a typhoon on board a Russian research ship only to find it occupied by aliens who view humanity as a virus that they try to exterminate.<ref name="noaafaq"/><ref>{{cite web|url= |
*'''(Unnamed)''': The 1999 film '']'' had a tugboat crew seek refuge during a typhoon on board a Russian research ship only to find it occupied by aliens who view humanity as a virus that they try to exterminate.<ref name="noaafaq"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120458/|title=Virus (1999)|publisher=]|accessdate=September 15, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9404E7DC1E31F935A25752C0A96F958260|title=Movie Review - Virus|first=Lawrence|last=Van Gelder|work=]|date=16 January 1999 |accessdate=September 15, 2012}}</ref> | ||
| *'''(Unnamed, but referred to as Typhoon Eighteen and Typhoon Kenny)''': Strikes Japan during the events of ]: Sayaka's Love Story. Causes the title character to develop a fever and triggers waves that sweep the main characters into the ocean.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.themanime.org/viewreview.php?id=1040|title=THEM Anime Reviews 4.0 - Pia Carrot: Sayaka's Love Story|publisher=themanime.org|accessdate=September 2012}}</ref> | *'''(Unnamed, but referred to as Typhoon Eighteen and Typhoon Kenny)''': Strikes Japan during the events of '']: Sayaka's Love Story''. Causes the title character to develop a fever and triggers waves that sweep the main characters into the ocean.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.themanime.org/viewreview.php?id=1040|title=THEM Anime Reviews 4.0 - Pia Carrot: Sayaka's Love Story|publisher=themanime.org|accessdate=September 15, 2012}}</ref> | ||
| *'''Hurricane Alma''': The ] hurricane that delays the launch of the rescue mission in ].<ref name="noaafaq"/><ref>{{cite book| |
*'''Hurricane Alma''': The ] hurricane that delays the launch of the rescue mission in '']''.<ref name="noaafaq"/><ref>{{cite book|author-link=Martin Caidin|first=Martin|last=Caidin|title=Marooned|publisher=Bantam Books|year=1969}}</ref> | ||
| *'''Hurricane Clarissa''': In ] |
*'''Hurricane Clarissa''': In '']''. A ] that wiped out the facilities on Site B, near ].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119567/synopsis|title=The Lost World:Jurassic Park (1997) - Synopsis|publisher=]|accessdate=September 15, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://screenplayexplorer.com/wp-content/scripts/The-Lost-World.pdf|title=The Lost World - Unspecified Draft Screenplay|publisher=screenplayexplorer.com|accessdate=September 15, 2012}}</ref> | ||
| *'''Hurricane Jezebel''': Hit ], in the ] film, '']'', on the night of a ]. |
*'''Hurricane Jezebel''': Hit ], in the ] film, '']'', on the night of a ]. | ||
| *'''Hurricane Noelani''': Massive hurricane in the East Pacific in the movie '']''.<ref>{{cite web|url= |
*'''Hurricane Noelani''': Massive hurricane in the East Pacific in the movie '']''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319262/trivia|title=The Day After Tomorrow (2004) - Trivia|publisher=]|accessdate=September 15, 2012}}</ref> It never made landfall, but was called the strongest hurricane on record. | ||
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====Video games==== | ||
| *'''Hurricane Alex''': Near the end of ], this Category 5 hurricane halted a manhunt for the game's antagonist, Andrei Markov, and his organization, allowing them to launch an aerial assault on the United States. The penultimate mission takes place inside Hurricane Alex itself, as well as inside a large ] the hurricane had spawned.{{citation needed|date=July 2013}} | *'''Hurricane Alex''': Near the end of ], this Category 5 hurricane halted a manhunt for the game's antagonist, Andrei Markov, and his organization, allowing them to launch an aerial assault on the United States. The penultimate mission takes place inside Hurricane Alex itself, as well as inside a large ] the hurricane had spawned.{{citation needed|date=July 2013}} | ||
| *'''Hurricane Gordy''': At the beginning of the prequel of ], namely ], this hurricane was forecast to hit Vice City in summer 1984, with officials closing off all bridges, keeping the player confined to the city's |
*'''Hurricane Gordy''': At the beginning of the prequel of ], namely ], this hurricane was forecast to hit Vice City in summer 1984, with officials closing off all bridges, keeping the player confined to the city's westernmost island. After a while the bridge closures are again lifted.<ref name="GameFAQ" /> | ||
| *'''Hurricane Hermione''': At the beginning of ], this hurricane was forecast to hit Vice City in 1986, forcing officials to close all bridges, keeping the player confined to the city's |
*'''Hurricane Hermione''': At the beginning of ], this hurricane was forecast to hit Vice City in 1986, forcing officials to close all bridges, keeping the player confined to the city's easternmost island. As the game progresses, the bridge closures are lifted as it is announced that the hurricane has missed Vice City.<ref name="GameFAQ">{{cite web|url=http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/938211-grand-theft-auto-vice-city-stories/41790364|title=Now how does that happen? - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories Message Board for PlayStation 2 - Game FAQs|publisher=gamefaqs.com|accessdate=September 15, 2012}}</ref> | ||
| *'''Cyclone Sanvu''': An extremely powerful cyclone in ] that devastates an unspecified coastline in 2018. Called by many experts the world's first Hypercane, this catastrophic storm helps gather support for the formation of the Global Environmental Organization in 2020, which the player controls as president of the organization. | |||
| ==Fictional accounts of real tropical cyclones== | ==Fictional accounts of real tropical cyclones== | ||
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| ====Books==== | ====Books==== | ||
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* ''']''': ] 2003 novel '']'' is set in 1954 on an island off the U.S. eastern seaboard, as the hurricane strikes two U.S. Marshalls search for a murderess who has escaped from a mental hospital for the criminally insane.,<ref name="noaafaq"/><ref>{{cite book|author-link=Dennis Lehane|first=Dennis|last=Lehane|title=Shutter Island|publisher=Bantam Books|year=2010|isbn=978-0-553-82607-4}}.</ref> | ||
| * ''']''': |
* ''']''': ]'s novel '']'' is about the crew of the ] during the storm.<ref>{{cite book|last=Junger|first=Sebastian|title=The Perfect Storm|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|year=2000|location=New York|isbn=9780393040166|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZN62AOin1LIC}}</ref> | ||
| *''']''': |
*''']''': ] '']'' gives a madcap tale of the aftermath of Andrew's visit to South Florida in 1992, lambasting shoddy builders and corrupt inspectors, and providing happy endings for most of those who deserve it, and biblical punishments for those that don't.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dearauthor.com/book-reviews/overall-a-reviews/a-reviews/guest-review-stormy-weather-by-carl-hiassen/|title=Guest Review - Stormy Weather by Carl Hiaasen|first=Jane|last=Little|publisher=Dear Author: A Romance review blog by readers for readers|date=August 3, 2008|accessdate=September 15, 2012}}</ref> | ||
| *''']''': Robin White's ''Hunters in the Sea'' opens with a ] searching for a ] aircraft which had been downed investigating Hurricane Vince.<ref>{{cite book|first=Robin|last=White|title=Hunters in the Sea|publisher=Orion|year=2006|isbn=978-1-4072-2621-7}}</ref> | *''']''': Robin White's ''Hunters in the Sea'' opens with a ] searching for a ] aircraft which had been downed investigating Hurricane Vince.<ref>{{cite book|first=Robin|last=White|title=Hunters in the Sea|publisher=Orion|year=2006|isbn=978-1-4072-2621-7}}</ref> | ||
| ====Television==== | ====Television==== | ||
| * ''']''': The |
* ''']''': The ]'s dramatic miniseries '']'' is based on the events surrounding the cyclone.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316973/|title=Cyclone Tracy (TV mini-series 1986)|publisher=]|accessdate=August 28, 2012}}</ref> | ||
| * ''']''': '']'' is an |
* ''']''': '']'' is an American ] centered on policing ] after the hurricane.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0952665/|title=K-Ville (TV Series 2007)|publisher=]|accessdate=August 28, 2012}}</ref> | ||
| ====Theatrical films==== | ====Theatrical films==== | ||
| * ''']''': The film adaptation of |
* ''']''': The film adaptation of ]'s '']'' is about the crew of the ] during the storm.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177971/|title=The Perfect Storm (2000)|publisher=]|accessdate=August 28, 2012}}</ref> | ||
| ====Music==== | ====Music==== | ||
| * ''']''': |
* ''']''': ]'s charity song "Santa Never made it into Darwin", in 1974 to raise money for the relief after the disaster.<ref>{{cite news|title=Santa never made it, but song to help Darwin|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MLUQAAAAIBAJ&pg=5568,5099|accessdate=7 July 2011|newspaper=The Age|date=1 January 1975|page=3}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://members.westnet.com.au/anugraha/music/files/santa.txt|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706113436/http://members.westnet.com.au/anugraha/music/files/santa.txt |title=''Santa Never Made it into Darwin'' |author=Bill Cate|archivedate=6 July 2011|accessdate=29 August 2012}}</ref> | ||
| * ''']''': |
* ''']''': ]' song "Tojo", from the 1984 album ], personifying Tracy as callously justifying hitting ] by the fact that the city was spared from Japanese invasion during ].<ref>{{cite web|date=June 2000 |last=Faulkner |first=Dave |url=http://www-personal.umich.edu/~juliat/hg/popandpunishment.html |publisher=juliat |title=Pop and punishment |accessdate=2012-08-29 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070808085453/http://www-personal.umich.edu/~juliat/hg/popandpunishment.html |archivedate=2007-08-08 |url-status=dead }}</ref> | ||
| * ''']''': ]'s song '']'' describes the ] and the need to move on after a disaster.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://margaritaville.com/lyrics_weather.php|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070606035711/http://margaritaville.com/lyrics_weather.php|title=Take the weather with you - Lyrics|publisher=Jimmy Buffett's MARGARITAVILLE.com|archivedate=6 June 2007|accessdate=September 2012}}</ref> ] and ]'s charity song, "''']'''" in 2006 to raise money for the relief after the disaster. This song was originally sung by ''']''', who first recorded the song in 1978.<ref>{{cite |
* ''']''': ]'s song '']'' describes the ] and the need to move on after a disaster.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://margaritaville.com/lyrics_weather.php|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070606035711/http://margaritaville.com/lyrics_weather.php|title=Take the weather with you - Lyrics|publisher=Jimmy Buffett's MARGARITAVILLE.com|archivedate=6 June 2007|accessdate=September 15, 2012}}</ref> ] and ]'s charity song, "''']'''" in 2006 to raise money for the relief after the disaster. This song was originally sung by ''']''', who first recorded the song in 1978.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5331106.stm|title=U2 to join forces with Green Day|work=BBC News|date=9 September 2006 |accessdate=August 28, 2012}}</ref> | ||
| ===Works in which a tropical cyclone is a key event=== | ===Works in which a tropical cyclone is a key event=== | ||
| ====Theatrical films==== | ====Theatrical films==== | ||
| *]: In John M. Stahl's ], based on ]'s idea for ''The Root of His Evil'' (called ''The Modern Cinderella'', a name that was also used in some publicity material for Stahl's film) two lovers are trapped by a hurricane that causes major damage to the Northeast. The storm forces the two to stay the night together in a church, simultaneously ending a strike that ]'s character organized, bringing the lovers closer together, and prompting major conflicts with other characters. Although the storm is not named, the film was released in 1939, and the major hurricane that struck New England the year before would have been the storm most closely associated with it. | *]: In John M. Stahl's 1939 film '']'', based on ]'s idea for ''The Root of His Evil'' (called ''The Modern Cinderella'', a name that was also used in some publicity material for Stahl's film) two lovers are trapped by a hurricane that causes major damage to the Northeast. The storm forces the two to stay the night together in a church, simultaneously ending a strike that ]'s character organized, bringing the lovers closer together, and prompting major conflicts with other characters. Although the storm is not named, the film was released in 1939, and the major hurricane that struck New England the year before would have been the storm most closely associated with it. | ||
| * ''']''': A pivotal scene in '']'' occurs when Gump and his former commanding officer, Lieutenant Dan Taylor, ride out the storm in Gump's shrimping boat; having been the only such boat to remain at sea, theirs is the only one not wrecked by the storm, allowing an unwitting Gump to monopolize the shrimping industry and become a millionaire. During the storm, Lieutenant Dan - in an alcoholic depression since the loss of his legs in the Vietnam War - challenges God, who is embodied in the fury of the hurricane. After surviving the event, Lieutenant Dan finally makes peace with his fate.<ref>David Savran, ''Taking It Like a Man: White Masculinity, Masochism, and Contemporary American Culture'' (1998), p. 302.</ref> | * ''']''': A pivotal scene in '']'' occurs when Gump and his former commanding officer, Lieutenant Dan Taylor, ride out the storm in Gump's shrimping boat; having been the only such boat to remain at sea, theirs is the only one not wrecked by the storm, allowing an unwitting Gump to monopolize the shrimping industry and become a millionaire. During the storm, Lieutenant Dan - in an alcoholic depression since the loss of his legs in the Vietnam War - challenges God, who is embodied in the fury of the hurricane. After surviving the event, Lieutenant Dan finally makes peace with his fate.<ref>David Savran, ''Taking It Like a Man: White Masculinity, Masochism, and Contemporary American Culture'' (1998), p. 302.</ref> | ||
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| ==Real tropical cyclones impacting popular culture== | |||
| ⚫ | *{{Portal-inline|Tropical cyclones}} | ||
| *''']''': Filmmaker ] and 130 cast and crew members of the movie '']'', were preparing for the final day of on-location shooting on the Hawaiian Island of ] when this storm hit. They safely rode out the hurricane in a hotel.<ref name="spielberg">{{cite news|author=Al Kamen|year=1992|title=Hawaii Hurricane Devastates Kauai|publisher=Washington Post|accessdate=2006-03-13|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/weather/hurricane/poststories/iniki.htm | date=1997-07-18}}</ref> | |||
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| *''']''': The syndicated game show '']'' was scheduled to tape three weeks of episodes in ] in August 2005 for broadcast during November sweeps. However, before they could tape week three (Family Week), Katrina barreled closer to New Orleans, and the third taping had to be cancelled so that the cast, staff and crew could strike the set and evacuate the area. The Family Week shows were eventually broadcast in May 2006 after being taped in ]. ] sponsored the week of shows affected by Katrina, flying in the affected family teams originally scheduled to participate in New Orleans. Host ] received an award from the ] for his contributions to Katrina relief efforts.<ref>{{cite news|author=Loyola Student News Service|title=My Katrina Story: 'Pat and Vanna got out quick. I chose to stay. It was a bad mistake.'|publisher=The Times Picayune|accessdate=2016-05-23|url=http://www.nola.com/katrina/index.ssf/2015/03/we_didnt_know_where_to_go.html|date=2015-03-02}}</ref> | |||
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| *''']''': Wilma struck the Bahamas during the filming of '']''. The service roads were destroyed and several trailers turned over. The two principal ships, the '']'' and ], were relatively undamaged and the cast and crew were evacuated on the Friday before the hurricane hit.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wordplayer.com/forums/moviesarc07/index.cgi?read=83160|title=MOVIES Message Board — ARCHIVE 7|author=]|publisher=Wordplay Forums|accessdate=July 9, 2006}}</ref> | |||
| ==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
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| {{efn|name=TropCyc|Depending on their location and strength, tropical cyclones are referred to by various other names, such as ''hurricane'', ''typhoon'', ''tropical storm'', ''cyclonic storm'', and ''tropical depression''.}} | {{efn|name=TropCyc|Depending on their location and strength, tropical cyclones are referred to by various other names, such as ''hurricane'', ''typhoon'', ''tropical storm'', ''cyclonic storm'', and ''tropical depression''.}} | ||
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The appearances of tropical cyclones in popular culture spans many genres of media and encompasses many different plot uses.
It includes both fictional tropical cyclones, and real ones used as the basis for a fictional work, and has proven to be of enough interest for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ("NOAA") to maintain a webpage on the topic.
Purpose in fiction and literature
Although many forms of natural disaster appear in fiction and literature, tropical cyclones serve a number of useful literary functions because they are both extraordinarily powerful and, to those who have some experience with them, their occurrence can be portended several days in advance. The NOAA page notes that:
There is undeniable drama to hurricanes; their massive scale affecting the lives of thousands, the foreshadowing of impending doom, and their ponderous pace as they approach the shore. This has made them ideal plot elements in many fictional works.
The strength of the tropical cyclone has made it a device by which authors explain the upending of characters' lives, and even transformations of the personalities of those who live through such an event. Their somewhat hazy predictability also makes them a useful MacGuffin, an impetus for characters to set to action. In some instances, the storm provides cover for characters to engage in covert behavior.
Early history of tropical cyclones in literature
One of the earliest uses of a tropical cyclone as a plot device occurs in a William Shakespeare play, The Tempest, first performed in 1611 or 1612. There, a storm (raised by the sorcerer Prospero) blows key characters to the island to which Prospero had been exiled many years before. The theme is said to have been inspired by Shakespeare's knowledge of a real-life hurricane which had caused the shipwreck of the Sea Venture in 1609 on the islands of Bermuda, while sailing toward Virginia.
Edgar Allan Poe, in his 1841 story, "A Descent into the Maelström", has the main character describe how "the most terrible hurricane that ever came out of the heavens" forced the boat crewed by himself and his brothers into a gigantic whirlpool. The trauma of surviving the storm and the whirlpool (and seeing the death of his brothers) is asserted to have a profound effect on the character, causing his hair to turn white. However, since the story is asserted to occur off the coast of Norway, it is unlikely that the event described could have fallen within the formal definition of a hurricane, as such storms form almost exclusively in the Maritime Tropical air masses of tropical regions of the globe.
Joseph Conrad, in his acclaimed 1903 book Typhoon, uses a tropical cyclone as a more direct element of the story, centering the plot on a ship captain's stubborn insistence on going into the heart of such a storm.
Fictional tropical cyclones
Works predominantly focused on the occurrence of a fictional tropical cyclone
Books and plays
- (Unnamed): A High Wind in Jamaica (U.S. title: The Innocent Voyage). In this 1929 novel by Richard Hughes, horrific incidents are described from a child's point of view, beginning with the destruction of the family's house by a hurricane. "If Emily had known this was a Hurricane, she would doubtless have been far more impressed, for the word was full of romantic terrors...."
- (Unnamed): In Hazard, a 1938 novel by Richard Hughes. A single-screw turbine cargo steamer encounters a hurricane off the coast of Cuba. Reviewers compared it to Joseph Conrad's Typhoon, admired the weather descriptions, complained of "puppet-like" characters.
- (Unnamed): The Mystery of the Double Double Cross A 1982 novel by Mary Blount Christian prominently features a hurricane hitting Galveston, TX.
- Tropical Storm Barney: The name of an artificially enhanced tropical storm that strikes Barbados with winds in excess of 75 mph (121 km/h) in opening of the novel, Category 7: The Biggest Storm in History. The authors describe the storms sudden intensification as "...bloated menacing clouds exploding over the open ocean with the unholy force of a mid-air detonation." This description is the books leitmotif for a manipulated storm.
- Hurricane Claude: A team of scientists try to use an EMP burst to destroy a Category Two hurricane following a track similar to that of the Long Island Express. Preceded by Hurricane Barbara.
- Hurricane Faith: Category Five Cape Verde hurricane which hits New York City with full force, causing a storm surge that topples the Statue of Liberty and inflicts severe damage on the rest of the city. The novels hurricane season prior to the appearance of Faith is described by one of the characters as "Just five in six weeks since the start of the season. And every one has gone flatter than my wife's pancakes in less than a week". Of these storms, only hurricanes Anthony(Category One), Barbara, Christopher & Eric are named in the novel.
- Hurricane Mabel: The name of the storm in Desmond Bagley's 1966 novel Wyatt's Hurricane. The titular scientist predicts the hurricane will strike a small Caribbean island despite what the models show. Local rebels use it to help overthrow the island's dictator. Mabel is described at the start of the novel as having a central pressure of 870 millibars and an outside pressure of 1040 millibars and winds strong enough to classify it as Category Five. Reference is also made in the novel to Hurricane Ione as proof of the difficulties of forecasting a hurricanes course. Preceded by Hurricane Laura.
- Maria: The name of the storm in George R. Stewart's bestselling 1941 novel, Storm. Although not, strictly speaking, a hurricane, the storm is highly notable for receiving a woman's name, the first widely known example of such personification. In the novel, a character referred to only as "the Junior Meteorologist" gives storms women's names as a private mental game. Stewart said that he was inspired by reading that "a certain meteorologist had even felt storms to be so personal that he had given them names." Stewart's book in turn inspired Lerner and Loewe's song "They Call the Wind Maria." It is widely thought to have influenced U.S. Navy meteorologists, who gave female names to Pacific tropical storms during World War II.
- Hurricane Omega: The name of a Category Five hurricane threatening the east coast of the United States that is deflected by moving the jet stream.
- Hurricane Simone: The name of an artificially created storm that threatens to hit New York City with a strength of above Category Five in the novel, Category 7: The Biggest Storm in History. While the storm is successfully disrupted before it makes landfall, the storm surge it generates devastates the city and topples the Statue of Liberty into the Hudson. Reference is made to Hurricanes Mitch & Ivan as being the products of trial runs of the technology used to create Simone, which was originally developed and tested during the 1971 Pacific typhoon season by the U.S. Government.
Television
- (Unnamed): Category Five storm of mysterious origin that threatens Miami with winds of over 250 mph (400 km/h) in the first-season episode Target Hurricane of Science Fiction Theater.
- Hurricane Grace and Hurricane Agatha: The made-for-BBC movie Superstorm, starring Tom Sizemore and Nicola Stephenson, involves two hurricanes named Grace and Agatha. Grace is a Category 5 hurricane that strikes Long Island, where the Stormshield headquarters is located. Agatha downs a plane.
- Hurricane Eduardo: Hit the United States east coast, particularly Florida, in Category 7: The End of the World, and later merged with a destructive non-tropical system near Washington, D.C. The resulting storm was more powerful than either of the other two. The NOAA website sums up the somewhat shoddy science as follows: "Falling chunks of the mesosphere combine with urban heat islands to spawn global spanning superstorms." Eduardo is considered as a Category 5 hurricane.
- Hurricane Gil: Hit Miami on a November 9, 1991, multiple crossover episode of The Golden Girls (The Monkey Show(Parts 1 & 2)), Empty Nest (Windy), and Nurses (Begone with the Wind), forcing characters from each show to take refuge in the locale of the other two shows.
- Hurricane Hilda: Massive storm based on Hurricane Camille hits the town of Cassier, Mississippi causing great devastation.
- Super Typhoon Vipa: a massive storm makes a direct hit on Hong Kong causing death and destruction in the Discovery Channel series 'Perfect Disaster'. Category 5 typhoon.
Music
- (Unnamed): Hugh Prestwood dreams of a hurricane in his song Savannah Fare You Well. The hurricane produces heavy rainfall which kills the songwriter.
- (Various): Jimmy Buffett has penned a number of songs describing the effects of unnanmed tropical cyclones. In his A1A song Trying to Reason with the Hurricane Season he describes a storm in the Gulf Stream with winds greater than 60 mph. The storm produces rough seas and grey skies in southeastern Florida. In Nobody Speaks to the Captain No More on his Floridays album, a fugitive captain loses his mind during a hurricane when a coconut hits him in the head. Buffett describes a sailor who goes through several hurricanes and typhoons in his Christmas Island song A Sailor's Christmas." Finally, several hurricanes affect the fictional Caribbean island of Kinja in the Jimmy Buffett song Don't Stop the Carnival.
- (Unnamed): Creedence Clearwater Revival sings a warning about hearing "hurricanes a-blowing" and fearing "rivers overflowing," among other disasters, in band frontman John Fogerty's apocalyptic Bad Moon Rising (song).
Works in which a fictional tropical cyclone is a key event
Books and plays
- (Unnamed): A hurricane striking the South Carolina setting is a major turning point of the 1925 novel Porgy, and its later adaptation, the subsequent 1935 opera Porgy and Bess, as well as the 1959 movie version. The storm causes the death of key characters, causing a sudden change in the direction of the story.
- (Unnamed): The Cay. A pivotal point of the story involves the hurricane that strikes the small island where the two main characters are marooned. Phillip, a prejudiced, blind, white child, is stranded with the elderly black Timothy. The pair deals with a hurricane that passes across the island by lashing themselves to a sturdy palm. The storm injures the eighty-year-old Timothy, who slowly dies afterwards.
- (Unnamed): In the 1966 techno-thriller Hunter-Killer by Geoffrey Jenkins, the heroes use the conditions induced by an Indian Ocean cyclone to evade a search by the United States Navy's Seventh Fleet.
- (Unnamed): In Douglas Reemans 1966 novel Path of the Storm, the author uses a Philippine Sea typhoon with a strength of at least Category Three as the reason for the hero and his ship to return to the Taiwanese island they have just left in time to prevent an invasion by China.
- (Unnamed): A Category One hurricane threatening Cape Canaveral in the science-fiction thriller Gravity by Tess Gerritsen. It forces the seriously ill crew of the Space Shuttle Discovery to make an attempt to land at White Sands Space Harbor.
- Hurricane Adele: The name of the storm in Thomas Clancy's Clear and Present Danger. Described by the author as "...a small, weak, disorganized hurricane, now turning back into a tropical storm..." its presence complicates a tricky rescue mission.
- Cyclone Alpha: In the 1972 novel (Set sometime between 1959 and 1965.) The Moonraker Mutiny by Anthony Trew, a ship's captain drunkenly applies his experience of typhoons to a Category Three Indian Ocean cyclone. As a result, the ship sails into the heart of the storm and is crippled, triggering the mutiny of the title.
- Hurricane Amanda: The name of the Beaufort Fifteen level storm in Clive Cussler's Raise the Titanic. The Soviet Navy used the storm as cover to board the newly raised ship in an attempt to sabotage the retrieval of a rare (fictional) mineral, byzanium, for use in an anti-ballistic missile defense system.
- Hurricane Annabelle: The name of the hurricane in the 1939 set novel Slade's Marauder by Steven Cade. It prevents the hero's ship from escaping a German commerce raider.
- Hurricane Ben: The name of the storm in G.M. Hagues Ghost Beyond Earth. The hurricane prevents NASA from sending a Space Shuttle to the crew of Space Station Freedom until the end of the novel.
- Typhoon Bernard: The name of the storm that delays the arrival of Soviet ships coming to pick up a sabotage party in Shuttle Down by Lee Correy.
- Hurricane Carmen: In the novel The Lies We Told by Diane Chamberlain, this Category Four hurricane strikes the area around Wilmington, North Carolina causing widespread damage and for the two major characters beginning a sequence of events that leads both to question the direction of their lives. Succeeded by Hurricanes Donald and Erin, the latter of which also reaches Category Four.
- Hurricane Dana: In Karen Harper's romantic thriller, Hurricane, the villains try to use the effects of the storm and its passage to cover up a series of murders.
- Typhoon Donald: Named by "...a wit in the Hong Kong typhoon center...", this Category Three typhoon is used by the crew of the pirate battleship Stalin to conceal their approach on the first of their targets in the novel The Iron Man by John Watson. Preceded by Typhoon Charlie
- Tropical Storm Hannah: The name of a storm that hits the Caribbean unexpectedly in the novel Star Shot by Douglas Terman. The author uses it to show the skill and determination of the hero.
- Hurricane Herman: In The Wide Window (the third book of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events), this hurricane demolishes Aunt Josephine's home. Later on in the book, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire endure the brunt of the storm while searching for their aunt.
- Hurricane Hope: Kristen Ethridge's contemporary romance series spanning five books focuses on the impact of Hurricane Hope on the fictional Texas gulf coast town of Port Provident. Ethridge based the books on her own experiences going through 2008's Hurricane Ike in Galveston, Texas.
- Hurricane Joyce: The name of the monstrous, continent-spanning storm triggered by the impact of the asteroid Hermes into the North Atlantic in the 1978 novel The Hermes Fall by John Baxter. Powered in part by the heat of the asteroid's impact, the hurricane produces wind speeds "...more than double the record of 171 knots - almost two hundred miles an hour set by the hurricane in 1966." (e.g. 400 mph (640 km/h)) near the eye as it makes its way up the eastern coast of the United States.
- Hurricane Juanita: In Kathryn Caseys novel The Killing Storm, the hunt for a boy kidnapped by a serial killer is complicated by a Category Four hurricane on a course to strike Houston.
- Hurricane Little Eva: The name of the storm in Clive Cussler's Cyclops. Described as "...a small blow with a diameter no more than sixty miles wide." The storm strands the heroes on an island used by the Soviets as an electronic intelligence post.
- Hurricane Lorna: Category Five hurricane that threatens environmental havoc in Wilbur Smiths Hungry As The Sea, the storm is disrupted when the cargo of the world's largest oil tanker is ignited at its heart.
- Typhoon Louise: In the 1986 thriller Tsunami, the hero investigates the sinking of a ship off the coast of Taiwan by this storm, uncovering evidence that the storm has been used to cover up insurance fraud.
- Hurricane Odin: The name of a Category Five hurricane, that forces the hero's plane to crash near a small Caribbean island being used by nuclear smugglers in the novel Second Wind by Dick Francis. Preceded by Hurricane Nicky(Category Three) and followed by Hurricane Sheila (after two unnamed storms),
- Hurricane Phyllis: The name of a Category Five hurricane that strikes South Carolina in the 1970 novel Killers at Sea by Alan Joseph. The storm reveals the true nature of one character and allows the hero to escape his pursuers in the climax of the story.
- Hurricane Queenie: The name of a Category Five hurricane that strikes New York City on the night of 4 August 1970 in the opening of the novel Summer of Storms by Judith Kelman. The author describes the storm as the "...feisty and temperamental..." seventeenth storm in a season where "Sixteen tropical disturbances had pummeled Caribbean islands and Atlantic seaboard towns since the National Weather Center began its annual six-month count in early June. Twelve of those had grown into full-fledged hurricanes, and six, triple the normal number, had intensified to the most lethal categories...". Queenie's furious arrival in New York City provides the cover for a brutal murder.
- Typhoon Rose: The name of a Category Five tropical storm that strikes Hong Kong with winds of up to 190 mph (310 km/h) in the novel Typhoon by John Gordon Davis. It triggers massive landslides, kills several of the novel's main characters and provides the impetus for the hero's final encounter with the novels major villain.
- Hurricane Sigrid: The name of the Category Five hurricane that complicates attempts to deal with a madman's home-made nuclear weapon over Washington DC in the novel Medusa's Child by John J. Nance.
- Hurricane Simone: Category Four hurricane that strikes Florida south of Sanibel island as a category three storm, triggering a chain of events that lead to a bloody shootout at an illegal geophysical laboratory in the Florida Everglades.
- Hurricane Tricia: The name of the storm in James Follett's novel Ice. Its arrival complicates attempts to tow a gigantic iceberg away from a collision with the North American continental shelf.
- (Various): Hurricane Punch, a comedic thriller by Tim Dorsey in which a misanthropic serial killer and his bumbling partner-in-crime take an impromptu storm-chasing trek across Florida with a kidnapped journalist in tow.
Television
- (Unnamed): A 1978 hurricane mentioned in The Simpsons episode "Hurricane Neddy" which blew down Hall of Records, but was never officially confirmed.
- Hurricane Anthony: A couple trying to escape this hurricane strikes a man with their car in the CSI: Miami episode Hurricane Anthony.
- Hurricane Barbara: Hit Springfield in The Simpsons episode "Hurricane Neddy." Destroyed Ned Flanders's house, picked up Barney Gumble's Bowlerama and dumped it on a nearby hill.
- Hurricane Elizabeth: Artificially created Category Five hurricane targeted at Los Angeles in the film Storm. The film's opening reveals that Hurricane Andrew was the result of an earlier test of the same technology.,
- Hurricane Eve: Hit Miami, Florida on the premiere episode of Invasion. Believed to be cover for extraterrestrial activity. Had a pressure of 936 mbar; according to TV Guide, a Category three on the Saffir-Simpson Scale. The NOAA website notes that "he series was cancelled after its initial season, with no resolution to the question, 'Does global warming cause more squid people?'"
- Hurricane Lenore: Shown in the Nip/Tuck episode "Conor McNamara, 2026". Struck Miami.
- Hurricane Norman: Shown on the Family Guy episode "One If By Clam, Two If By Sea." Hit Quahog, Rhode Island with downed power lines, several damaged buildings, and downed trees and brush...
- Tropical Storm Renee: Shown in the Seinfeld episode "The Checks." Struck before 1981, experienced by umbrella salesmen Teddy Padillac and Jerry Seinfeld. The storm dropped heavy rainfall, resulting in good business for the two salesmen.
- Hurricane Robert: Mentioned in an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air as having wiped out half of Miami and Hilary refers to it as Bobby to "...spread a little sunshine".
- Hurricane RuPaul: Massive storm headed for Quahog in the Family Guy episode "The Perfect Castaway".
- Hurricane Sarah: Strikes the US east coast causing damage to the US fleet in The West Wing episode "The State Dinner".
- Scrambles the Death Dealer: Strikes Florida, devastating the state in the Metalocalypse episode "Dethgov".
Theatrical films
- (Unnamed): In the 1948 film, Key Largo, gangsters who have taken over a small hotel in the title locale are delayed in their planned getaway by a hurricane. In one exchange, a gang member asks another, "what all happens in a hurricane?" to which the other replies, "The wind blows so hard the ocean gets up on its hind legs and walks right across the land." Later, the leader of the gang is shaken by the presence of the storm, leading Frank McCloud, the protagonist of the film, to say, "You don't like it, do you Rocco, the storm? Show it your gun, why don't you? If it doesn't stop, shoot it."
- (Unnamed): The 1999 film Virus had a tugboat crew seek refuge during a typhoon on board a Russian research ship only to find it occupied by aliens who view humanity as a virus that they try to exterminate.
- (Unnamed, but referred to as Typhoon Eighteen and Typhoon Kenny): Strikes Japan during the events of Welcome to Pia Carrot: Sayaka's Love Story. Causes the title character to develop a fever and triggers waves that sweep the main characters into the ocean.
- Hurricane Alma: The Category One hurricane that delays the launch of the rescue mission in Marooned.
- Hurricane Clarissa: In The Lost World: Jurassic Park. A Pacific hurricane that wiped out the facilities on Site B, near Costa Rica.
- Hurricane Jezebel: Hit New Jersey, in the Brian De Palma film, Snake Eyes, on the night of a prize fight.
- Hurricane Noelani: Massive hurricane in the East Pacific in the movie The Day After Tomorrow. It never made landfall, but was called the strongest hurricane on record.
Video games
- Hurricane Alex: Near the end of Ace Combat: Assault Horizon, this Category 5 hurricane halted a manhunt for the game's antagonist, Andrei Markov, and his organization, allowing them to launch an aerial assault on the United States. The penultimate mission takes place inside Hurricane Alex itself, as well as inside a large waterspout the hurricane had spawned.
- Hurricane Gordy: At the beginning of the prequel of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, namely Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, this hurricane was forecast to hit Vice City in summer 1984, with officials closing off all bridges, keeping the player confined to the city's westernmost island. After a while the bridge closures are again lifted.
- Hurricane Hermione: At the beginning of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, this hurricane was forecast to hit Vice City in 1986, forcing officials to close all bridges, keeping the player confined to the city's easternmost island. As the game progresses, the bridge closures are lifted as it is announced that the hurricane has missed Vice City.
- Cyclone Sanvu: An extremely powerful cyclone in Fate of the World that devastates an unspecified coastline in 2018. Called by many experts the world's first Hypercane, this catastrophic storm helps gather support for the formation of the Global Environmental Organization in 2020, which the player controls as president of the organization.
Fictional accounts of real tropical cyclones
Works predominantly focused on the occurrence of a tropical cyclone
Books
- Hurricane Carol (1954): Denis Lehane's 2003 novel Shutter Island is set in 1954 on an island off the U.S. eastern seaboard, as the hurricane strikes two U.S. Marshalls search for a murderess who has escaped from a mental hospital for the criminally insane.,
- 1991 Perfect Storm: Sebastian Junger's novel The Perfect Storm is about the crew of the Andrea Gail during the storm.
- Hurricane Andrew (1992): Carl Hiaasen's Stormy Weather gives a madcap tale of the aftermath of Andrew's visit to South Florida in 1992, lambasting shoddy builders and corrupt inspectors, and providing happy endings for most of those who deserve it, and biblical punishments for those that don't.
- Hurricane Vince (2005): Robin White's Hunters in the Sea opens with a Los Angeles class submarine searching for a Hurricane Hunter aircraft which had been downed investigating Hurricane Vince.
Television
- Cyclone Tracy (1974): The Nine Network's dramatic miniseries Cyclone Tracy is based on the events surrounding the cyclone.
- Hurricane Katrina (2005): K-Ville is an American television drama centered on policing New Orleans after the hurricane.
Theatrical films
- 1991 Perfect Storm: The film adaptation of Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm is about the crew of the Andrea Gail during the storm.
Music
- Cyclone Tracy (1974): Bill Cate's charity song "Santa Never made it into Darwin", in 1974 to raise money for the relief after the disaster.
- Cyclone Tracy (1974): Hoodoo Gurus' song "Tojo", from the 1984 album Stoneage Romeos, personifying Tracy as callously justifying hitting Darwin by the fact that the city was spared from Japanese invasion during World War II.
- Hurricane Katrina (2005): Jimmy Buffett's song Breathe In, Breathe Out, Move On describes the effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans and the need to move on after a disaster. Green Day and U2's charity song, "The Saints Are Coming" in 2006 to raise money for the relief after the disaster. This song was originally sung by The Skids, who first recorded the song in 1978.
Works in which a tropical cyclone is a key event
Theatrical films
- Great New England Hurricane of 1938: In John M. Stahl's 1939 film When Tomorrow Comes, based on James M. Cain's idea for The Root of His Evil (called The Modern Cinderella, a name that was also used in some publicity material for Stahl's film) two lovers are trapped by a hurricane that causes major damage to the Northeast. The storm forces the two to stay the night together in a church, simultaneously ending a strike that Irene Dunne's character organized, bringing the lovers closer together, and prompting major conflicts with other characters. Although the storm is not named, the film was released in 1939, and the major hurricane that struck New England the year before would have been the storm most closely associated with it.
- Hurricane Carmen (1974): A pivotal scene in Forrest Gump occurs when Gump and his former commanding officer, Lieutenant Dan Taylor, ride out the storm in Gump's shrimping boat; having been the only such boat to remain at sea, theirs is the only one not wrecked by the storm, allowing an unwitting Gump to monopolize the shrimping industry and become a millionaire. During the storm, Lieutenant Dan - in an alcoholic depression since the loss of his legs in the Vietnam War - challenges God, who is embodied in the fury of the hurricane. After surviving the event, Lieutenant Dan finally makes peace with his fate.
See also
Notes
- Depending on their location and strength, tropical cyclones are referred to by various other names, such as hurricane, typhoon, tropical storm, cyclonic storm, and tropical depression.
- The name is anachronistic, at the time the story is set hurricanes were not named.
- A pseudonym for author John Messmann.
- Using the 1970 name list the name for this storm would actually have been Rena
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