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List of storms named Jim

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ124169004 ↗
Source-derived summary

The name Jim has been used for two tropical cyclones in the Australian region of the Southern Hemisphere.

Cyclone Jim (1984) – a Category 3 severe tropical cyclone a cross the Cape York Peninsula that made landfall Northern Territory.

Cyclone Jim (2006) – a Category 3 severe tropical cyclone that affected New Caledonia and Vanuatu.

See also

Tropical Storm Jimmy (1997) – name only used once in the Western Pacific.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1984, 2006, 1997—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where List, storms and named can be independently traced.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 27, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q124169004. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1984, 2006 and 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of storms named Jim” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.