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The fifth tropical low, and the third named storm of the 2019–20 Australian region cyclone season, Damien originated from a monsoon trough over Kimberley. As a monsoon trough began developing over parts of the Kimberley on 2 February 2020, the BOM noted that an inland tropical disturbance formed over the Northern Territory, within the monsoon ...
The 2019–20 Australian region cyclone season was a below average tropical cyclone season for the waters surrounding Australia between longitudes 90°E and 160°E.The season officially began on 1 November 2019 and ended on 30 April 2020; however, tropical cyclones can form at any time of year, as evidenced by Tropical Cyclone Mangga during May 2020.
5 – 12 January 2020: 150 km/h (90 mph) 963 hPa (28.44 inHg) Northern Territory, Western Australia: Unknown: Unknown [72] Damien: 3 – 9 February 2020: 155 km/h (100 mph) 955 hPa (28.20 inHg) Northern Territory, Western Australia: Unknown: Unknown [73] Marian: 21 February – 9 March 2021: 150 km/h (90 mph) 959 hPa (28.32 inHg) Cocos Island ...
Damien: 2020: 8 February: 145 km/h (90 mph) 962: 0: Unknown: Damien made landfall as a category 3, with the eye moving directly over Karratha. The Bureau of Meteorology's Dampier radar sustained significant damage, there was some damage to property, including Karratha Airport, and to vessels moored in the area.
Tropical cyclones are non-frontal, low-pressure systems that develop, within an environment of warm sea surface temperatures and little vertical wind shear aloft. [1] Within the Australian region, names are assigned from three pre-determined lists, to such systems, once they reach or exceed ten–minute sustained wind speeds of 65 km/h (40 mph), near the center, by either the Australian Bureau ...
Cyclone Damien (1987) – a category 2 tropical cyclone near Western Australia. Cyclone Damien (1999) – a Category 3 severe tropical cyclone (Australian scale), mostly stayed at sea. Cyclone Damien (2020) – was the strongest cyclone to make landfall in the Western Australian coast since Cyclone Christine in 2013.
It was also the most intense tropical cyclone in the 2020 part of the 2019–20 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season. With the month of March being the least active of the year, Intense Tropical Cyclone Herold formed, becoming the first major tropical cyclone, which is Category 3 or higher on the Saffir–Simpson scale.
2020–21 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone season (3 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Tropical cyclones in 2020" The following 60 pages are in this category, out of 60 total.