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Storm caused severe damage in Derby. A pearling fleet near the Lacepede Islands was devastated by the storm, resulting in 141 fatalities. [3] [5] — 1939: 11 January: 200 km/h (125 mph) [nb 3] N/A: 9: Unknown: A storm surge of 9.8 m (32 ft) caused extensive damage in Port Hedland and left 30 percent of the town homeless. [4]
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). [ 87 ] During December 21, 2022 Severe Tropical Cyclone Darian moved into the South-West Indian Ocean as a Category 5 severe tropical cyclone, where it was immediately classified as a Very Intense ...
Cyclone Billy–Lila near peak strength off the western coast of Australia on 10 May 1986. An off-season Australian tropical cyclone is a tropical cyclone that existed in the Australian Region, between 90°E and 160°E, outside of the official season.
The sixth named storm, and the fifth severe tropical cyclone of the 2022–23 Australian region cyclone season, Ilsa formed from a tropical low off the coast of Indonesia on 6 April. It fluctuated in intensity and became a Category 1 tropical cyclone on 11 April, after deep convection became symmetric around the low-level circulation center.
After the onset of satellite imagery, the Dvorak technique was used to estimate storms' intensities and locations. [ 3 ] Each of three tropical cyclone warning centres (TCWCs) of the Bureau of Meteorology in Perth , Darwin and Brisbane used its own tropical cyclone naming list until the 2008–09 season , when the three TCWCs started to use the ...
There were heavy storms (and a possible tornado) [5] which hit Canberra, and the surrounding New South Wales region, on 2 December 2005. The storms were the worst emergency to hit Canberra since the 2003 Canberra bushfires. [6] The storms caused much damage to houses and property, and one man was killed by a falling tree in the suburb of Curtin ...
By 4 pm, the Perth storm had reached the southern suburbs and damaging wind gusts had been reported at the suburb of Jandakot (96 kilometres per hour or 60 miles per hour). Jarrahdale , to the southeast of Perth, received 44.2 millimetres (1.74 in) in half an hour, exceeding the conditions required for a 1-in-100-year flood in terms of a period ...
The 2023 Wanneroo bushfire was a bushfire that began on 22 November 2023 in Wanneroo, 36 kilometres (22 miles) north of the Perth central business district, in the City of Wanneroo, Western Australia.