Tropical cyclones impact marine ecosystems and are expected to occur less frequently, but at higher intensity as the global climate warms. Although listening to sounds from soniferous fauna in the path of a cyclone offers a unique perspective on its effects, there are few reports on this topic. In March 2019, Cyclone Veronica passed a seafloor-positioned hydrophone off northwest Australia, ≈5 km from the cyclone’s center (eye). Sound, wind, and waves increased significantly at the eyewall, yet while sound levels and wind speed dropped in the eye, wave heights peaked. Temperature on the seafloor dropped by 6.2 °C >24 hours after the eye passed the sensor, indicating advection of deeper, colder waters from offshore. Two fish choruses were present most evenings in the 10 months before the storm. Post cyclone, Chorus I persisted for 12 days, displaying different timing than in the same month a year earlier, before ceasing for the remainder of the deployment. Chorus II, which displayed call frequencies that correlated with water temperature, ceased during the storm, returning 15 days later. Without control sites, the drivers of behavioral change remain unconfirmed. Nonetheless, these opportunistic observations of sound production during a disturbance improve our understanding of fish ecology.