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Preliminary reports estimated the cost of loss and damage to domestic and commercial premises is to be in excess of half a billion dollars. After landfall, Tropical Cyclone Larry moved over north-western Queensland on 22–23 March 2006, with heavy rain across the region.
Cyclone Tracy at landfall in the Northern Territory on December 25, 1974. The costliest Australian region tropical cyclone on record was Cyclone Yasi in 2011, which caused $3.6 billion in damages. [36] The next costliest cyclone, Debbie, caused $2.67 billion in damages [37] and is closely followed by Oswald which caused $2.52 billion in damages ...
This is a list of the costliest Atlantic hurricanes, with US$1 billion in property damage, broadly capturing the severity of the damage each tropical cyclone has caused. The list includes tropical storms, a tropical cyclone with a peak 1-minute maximum sustained wind in the range of 39–73 mph (63–118 km/h), placing them below the 74 mph ...
Cyclone Larry (2006) – a severe tropical cyclone that made landfall near Innisfail, Queensland, and caused roughly AU$1.5 billion (US$1.1 billion) in damage List of storms with the same or similar names
2006 - Cyclone Larry (pictured) made landfall near Innisfail, Queensland as a Category 5 cyclone, causing about AU$1.4 billion (US$1 billion) worth of damage.
The low-pressure area formed into a tropical cyclone two days later and quickly strengthened into a Category 5 storm on the Australian tropical cyclone scale. Larry made landfall in Far North Queensland close to Innisfail on 20 March as a Category 4 with wind gusts reaching 240 kilometres per hour (150 mph) and dissipated over land soon after ...
Tropical Storm Larry was the twelfth named tropical storm in the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season. It was one of eight storms to impact Mexico from either the Pacific or Atlantic oceans in the season. Larry formed in early October from an extratropical storm in the Bay of Campeche , and reached a peak intensity of 65 mph (105 km/h).
[177] [178] The total cost of the storm damage and reconstruction was estimated at over $500 million (1974 AUD). [179] Australia's costliest tropical cyclone was Cyclone Yasi, which struck Mission Beach, Queensland on February 3, 2011, as a Category 5 on the Australian region tropical cyclone scale. The cyclone left about US$2.8 billion in damage.