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Severe Tropical Cyclone Althea was a powerful tropical cyclone that devastated parts of North Queensland just before Christmas 1971. One of the strongest storms ever to affect the Townsville area, Althea was the fourth system and second severe tropical cyclone of the 1971–72 Australian region cyclone season.
Cyclone Leonta was a tropical cyclone that caused severe damage in North Queensland on 9 March 1903. It lasted for around twelve hours, and was the most damaging cyclone ever to hit Townsville at that time, surpassing Cyclone Sigma of 1896, with approximately 14 lives lost (12 in Townsville and 2 in Charters Towers ).
Townsville was declared a state of emergency that night. [4] Rain had eased a little by the 11th but still had some heavy rain pass through, Ex-Cyclone Sid, a weak surface low was still just to the north of Townsville during Monday 12 January and by midday the trough had redeveloped again and heavy rain moved into the city for the rest of the ...
Name Duration Peak intensity Areas affected Damage (Deaths Refs Wind speed Pressure Felicity: 13 – 20 December 1989: 140 km/h (85 mph) 970 hPa (28.64 inHg)
Operationally Severe Tropical Cyclone Narelle was estimated to have peaked as a category 5 severe tropical cyclone, with 10-minute sustained winds of 205 km/h (125 mph). However, during the post-storm analysis process, it was downgraded to a Category 4 system, with 10-minute sustained winds of 195 km/h (120 mph).
The total is likely higher because satellite monitoring technology was not available until the 1960s and cyclones that could have been a Category 5 storm may have remained undetected.
February 7, 1954 – A tropical cyclone made landfall on Queensland to the south of Townsville. [2] February 17–20, 1954 – A tropical cyclone made landfall on Queensland near Coolangatta. [2] [8] [9] March 2–7, 1954 – A tropical cyclone that originated over the Coral Sea, caused gales over the sea between Norfolk Island and New ...
[7] [53] While over Queensland, the cyclone weakened below hurricane-equivalent intensity by 1-minute sustained wind intensity. [54] By the next day, the storm lost convection and rapidly weakened into a weak Category 1 tropical cyclone on the Australian region scale, [55] but there was a persistent, small, and warming CDO maintained by the ...