A fact from HURDAT appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 August 2009 ( check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the hurricane database HURDAT contains information about every tropical cyclone in the Atlantic Ocean since 1851? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/August.

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...is the database for all tropical storms and hurricanes for the Atlantic Ocean....

Doesn't it also contain data on tropical depressions? Wouldn't it be easier to just say tropical cyclones? I'm not sure on this, which is why I asked here instead of changing it myself. - RunningOnBrains^{( talk)} 14:07, 29 July 2009 (UTC) reply

ive revised it Jason Rees ( talk) 14:10, 29 July 2009 (UTC) reply

I noticed the first reference is an outdated link, there is nothing at that page anymore. atomic 77 32 00:38, 8 December 2011 (UTC) reply

• Revise article to incorporate HURDAT2 revisions Titoxd^{( ?!? - cool stuff)} 08:48, 27 September 2012 (UTC) reply

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