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Notable Australian tropical cyclones

• Cyclone Mahina
  Cyclone Mahina
  Cyclone Mahina struck Bathurst Bay, Australia and the surrounding region with a devastating storm surge on 4 March 1899, killing over 400 people, the largest death toll of any natural disaster in Australian history.-Intensity:...
  
  , 4 March 1899 - 410 people died.
• 1918 Mackay cyclone, 1918 - 30 dead, extensive damage.
• 1949 Rockhampton cyclone, 1949 - 6 dead, 1,000 houses damaged and 500 totally wrecked.
• Cyclone Ada, 1970 - struck Whitsunday Island
  Whitsunday Island
  Whitsunday Island is the largest island in the Whitsunday group of islands located off the coast of Central Queensland, Australia. Whitsunday Island is located at...
  
   resorts and Whitsunday coast mainland. 14 people died and cost approximately A$390 million.
• Cyclone Althea, 1971 - struck Magnetic Island
  Magnetic Island
  Magnetic Island is an island offshore from the city of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. This mountainous island in Cleveland Bay has effectively become a suburb of Townsville, with 2,107 permanent residents. The island is accessible from Townsville Breakwater to Nelly Bay Harbour by ferry...
  
  , Thuringowa and Townsville, Queensland
  Queensland
  Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
  
   on Christmas Day
• Cyclone Wanda, 1974 - caused extensive flooding in south-eastern Queensland
  Queensland
  Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
  
   and north-eastern New South Wales
  New South Wales
  New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
  
  
• Cyclone Tracy
  Cyclone Tracy
  Cyclone Tracy was a tropical cyclone that devastated the city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day, 1974...
  
  , 1974 - 71 people died when the city of Darwin, Northern Territory
  Northern Territory
  The Northern Territory is a federal territory of Australia, occupying much of the centre of the mainland continent, as well as the central northern regions...
  
  , was devastated on Christmas Day. It is the costliest Australian cyclone on record.
• Cyclone Alby, 1978 - 5 people died in south-western parts of Western Australia
  Western Australia
  Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...
  
  . Albany
  Albany, Western Australia
  Albany is a port city in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, some 418 km SE of Perth, the state capital. As of 2009, Albany's population was estimated at 33,600, making it the 6th-largest city in the state....
  
   recorded one of the strongest wind gusts on record.
• Cyclone Bobby, 1995 - 7 people died on two fishing trawlers sunk off the coast of Onslow
  Onslow, Western Australia
  Onslow is a coastal town in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, north of Perth. It currently has a population of around 573 people and is in the Shire of Ashburton Local Government Area....
  
  ; the cyclone then became a depression which caused heavy rain and flooding in inland WA, washing out the Eyre Highway
  Eyre Highway
  The Eyre Highway is a highway linking Western Australia and South Australia via the Nullarbor Plain. Signed as National Highway 1/A1, it forms part of Highway 1 and the Australian National Highway network linking Perth and Adelaide. It was named after explorer Edward John Eyre, who was the first to...
  
   and the Trans-Australian Railway
  Trans-Australian Railway
  The Trans-Australian Railway crosses the Nullarbor Plain of Australia from Port Augusta in South Australia to Kalgoorlie in Western Australia...
  
   for several days.
• Cyclone Justin
  Cyclone Justin (1997)
  Cyclone Justin was a tropical cyclone of the 1996-97 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone season that caused seven deaths and had a major economic impact in northern Queensland, Australia. It had a long 3½ week life from 3 March to 29 March 1997...
  
  , 1997 - 7 people died and damage came to approximately 190 million AUD.
• Cyclone Thelma
  Cyclone Thelma
  Severe Tropical Cyclone Thelma was a tropical cyclone that affected northern Australia from 6 December 1998 until 12 December 1998. Cyclone Thelma was one of the most intense tropical cyclones to be observed off the coast of Australia...
  
  , 1998 - intense Category 5 system that hit the Kimberley region of Western Australia
  Western Australia
  Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...
  
   causing extensive damage and flooding near Darwin
  Darwin, Northern Territory
  Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. Situated on the Timor Sea, Darwin has a population of 127,500, making it by far the largest and most populated city in the sparsely populated Northern Territory, but the least populous of all Australia's capital cities...
  
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• Cyclone Vance
  Cyclone Vance
  Cyclone Vance was a tropical cyclone that struck Western Australia during the active 1998–99 Australian region cyclone season, and was also one of six tropical cyclones to form off the coast of Australia during that season. When making landfall the Learmonth Meteorological Office recorded the...
  
  , 1999 - Category 5 system that caused extensive damage to the Western Australia
  Western Australia
  Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...
  
  n towns of Exmouth
  Exmouth, Western Australia
  -Further reading:* Western Australia. Ministry for Planning. Exmouth-Learmonth structure plan. Perth, W.A. : Western Australian Planning Commission...
  
   and Onslow
  Onslow, Western Australia
  Onslow is a coastal town in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, north of Perth. It currently has a population of around 573 people and is in the Shire of Ashburton Local Government Area....
  
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• Cyclone Steve
  Cyclone Steve
  Severe Tropical Cyclone Steve was a tropical cyclone that affected northern Australia from 27 February 2000 until 11 March 2000. Cyclone Steve was noted for its longevity and traversal of northern and western Australia. It impacted on regions of northern Queensland, the Northern Territory and...
  
  , 2000 - A long-lived Category 2 storm, causing flooding in Queensland
  Queensland
  Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
  
  , Northern Territory
  Northern Territory
  The Northern Territory is a federal territory of Australia, occupying much of the centre of the mainland continent, as well as the central northern regions...
  
   and Western Australia
  Western Australia
  Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...
  
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• Cyclone Rosita
  Cyclone Rosita
  Severe Tropical Cyclone Rosita was a tropical cyclone that affected northern Australia from 15 April through 21 April 2000. Rosita was one of the most intense tropical cyclones to hit the west Kimberley coast in the last hundred years...
  
  , 2000 - Category 5, made a destructive landfall near Broome, Western Australia
  Broome, Western Australia
  Broome is a pearling and tourist town in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, north of Perth. The year round population is approximately 14,436, growing to more than 45,000 per month during the tourist season...
  
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• Cyclone Ingrid
  Cyclone Ingrid
  Cyclone Ingrid was a tropical cyclone which struck northern Australia during the 2004-05 Australian region cyclone season. Its minimum pressure was 924 mbar .-Meteorological history:Ingrid developed in the Coral Sea on 3 March 2005...
  
  , 2005 - Category 5 cyclone which took a long track over Northern Australia.
• Cyclone Larry
  Cyclone Larry
  Severe Tropical Cyclone Larry was a tropical cyclone that made landfall in Australia during the 2005-06 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone season. Larry originated as a low pressure system over the eastern Coral Sea on 16 March and was monitored by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology in...
  
  , 2006 - Category 4 which crossed the Queensland coast at Innisfail
  Innisfail, Queensland
  Innisfail is a town located in the far north of the state of Queensland, Australia. It is the major township of the Cassowary Coast and is well renowned for its sugar and banana industries, as well as for being one of Australia's wettest towns...
  
  , causing $1 billion in damage.
• Cyclone Glenda
  Cyclone Glenda
  Severe Tropical Cyclone Glenda was among the strongest tropical cyclones to make landfall in Western Australia, though it moved ashore in a lightly populated region. It began as a tropical low on 15 March in the Gulf of Carpentaria...
  
  , 2006 - Category 5 which crossed the West Australian coast as Category 3 near Onslow
  Onslow, Western Australia
  Onslow is a coastal town in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, north of Perth. It currently has a population of around 573 people and is in the Shire of Ashburton Local Government Area....
  
  
• Cyclone Monica
  Cyclone Monica
  Severe Tropical Cyclone Monica was the most intense tropical cyclone, in terms of maximum sustained winds, on record to impact Australia. The 17th storm of the 2005–06 Australian region cyclone season, Monica originated from an area of low pressure off the coast of Papua New Guinea on 16 April...
  
  , 2006 - Category 5; strongest cyclone ever recorded in the Southern Hemisphere (in terms of wind speed). Arguably the world's strongest cyclone, based on a Dvorak estimation, which suggested central pressure reached a low of 869 hPa. The official JTWC pressure was 879hPa.
• Cyclone George
  Cyclone George
  Severe Tropical Cyclone George was the third tropical cyclone to affect the Australian region and the first to affect Western Australia in 2007...
  
  , 2007 - Category 5 which struck east of Port Hedland causing 3 fatalities.
• Cyclone Guba
  Cyclone Guba
  Cyclone Guba was a tropical cyclone that resulted in 149 fatalities and severe damage across southeastern Papua New Guinea...
  
  , 2007 - Category 1 cyclone (SSHS) which struck Papua New Guinea
  Papua New Guinea
  Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...
  
   causing over 170 fatalities.
• Cyclone Hamish, 2009 - Category 5 cyclone (SSHS) which hovered off the southeast coast of Queensland
  Queensland
  Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
  
   near Mackay
  Mackay, Queensland
  Mackay is a city on the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia, about north of Brisbane, on the Pioneer River. Mackay is nicknamed the sugar capital of Australia because its region produces more than a third of Australia's cane sugar....
  
   in March 2009. Two crew members from a capsised fishing trawler were never found.
• Cyclone Laurence
  Cyclone Laurence
  Severe Tropical Cyclone Laurence was the first Category 5 cyclone to make landfall in Australia since Cyclone George in 2007.-Meteorological history:...
  
  , 2009 - First Category 5 cyclone to make landfall in Australia since Cyclone George, crossing the coast near Wallal in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. No fatalities or injuries were reported, however there was extensive damage to property and an estimated 1500 head of livestock were killed.
• Cyclone Yasi
  Cyclone Yasi
  Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi was a tropical cyclone that made landfall in northern Queensland, Australia in the early hours of Thursday, 3 February 2011. Yasi originated from a tropical low near Fiji. The system intensified to a Category 3 cyclone at about 5pm AEST on 31 January 2011...
  
  , 2011 Category 5 cyclone made landfall in Australia at Mission Beach
  Mission Beach, Queensland
  Mission Beach is a small village along the Coral Sea in Queensland, Australia. The popular tourist destination of Dunk Island lies 4 km offshore.-History:...
  
  , track towards Georgetown (Cat3) and on to Mount Isa (Tropical Low). Wind speed recorded Willis Island 07:00 EST 02/02/2011 107 km/h Gust 139 km/h QNH 975.7hPa

Parent topics

• Tropical cyclone
  Tropical cyclone
  A tropical cyclone is a storm system characterized by a large low-pressure center and numerous thunderstorms that produce strong winds and heavy rain. Tropical cyclones strengthen when water evaporated from the ocean is released as the saturated air rises, resulting in condensation of water vapor...
  
  
• List of environment topics
• List of notable tropical cyclones
• Lists of tropical cyclone names
• List of previous tropical cyclone names

Other tropical cyclone basins

• List of Atlantic hurricane seasons
• List of Pacific hurricane seasons
• List of Pacific typhoon seasons
• List of North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons
• List of Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone seasons