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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 Flora: 1 – 5 December 1964: 140 km/h (85 mph) 965 hPa (28.50 inHg)
1788 – A tropical cyclone destroyed two ships that had been sailing between Sydney and the Solomon Islands, under the command of Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse. [1] Most of the crew drowned, however, a number of them lived onshore for several years. [1] 1811 – A tropical cyclone impacted Indonesia's Banda Islands. [2]
According to the National Hurricane Center, there have been an estimated 42 tropical cyclones that have reached Category 5 status in the Atlantic Basin since 1924 — the most recent being ...
The 1999–2000 Australian region cyclone season was a slightly above average tropical cyclone season. It ran from 1 November 1999 to 30 April 2000. The regional tropical cyclone operational plan also defines a "tropical cyclone year" separately from a "tropical cyclone season", with the "tropical cyclone year" for this season lasting from 1 July 1999 to 30 June 2000.
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 ...