The purpose of this template is to have a single location for the National Hurricane Center Tropical Cyclone Report base url as a method of combating link rot.
The template takes two parameters:
|id=
– (required) the 'file name' without the .pdf extension|title=
– (optional) the title of the linked documentParameter names are not required. When not used, the positional order is:
((NHC TCR url|identifier|title))
When |title=
is empty or omitted, the template produces a url suitable for use in Citation Style 1 and Citation Style 2 templates.
((cite report |first=James L. |last=Franklin |title=Tropical Cyclone Report Hurricane Alex 31 July – 6 August 2004 |url=((NHC TCR url|id=AL012004_Alex)) |publisher=[[National Hurricane Center]] |date=26 October 2004 |access-date=2016-03-05))
With a title, the template produces a properly marked up external wikilink:
((NHC TCR url|id=AL012004_Alex|title=Tropical Cyclone Report Hurricane Alex 31 July – 6 August 2004))
[http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL012004_Alex.pdf Tropical Cyclone Report Hurricane Alex 31 July – 6 August 2004]