Tully is to the direct West of this, and Cardwell to the South. 2011 – CYCLONE YASI (Category 5) This indicates it was a low Cat 4, not Cat 5. Gusts topped 100 between 11pm and 3am and have decr slightly to 89 @ 3.30am. Actually, I’ve noticed the media being careful, mostly, to not try linking this event to AGW, even if they do hype it up a bit. The couple of hundred years prior to that were very active.” A decision to run would be pointless: in which direction and how much time have we got? It damaged 85 per cent of the houses in Port Hedland, 600 km south west of Broome, WA, and other settlements along its path. More than 400 people perished after Cyclone Mahina hit Bathurst Bay on 4 March 1899. 2007 – CYCLONE GEORGE (Category 5) TC Yasi on 1st February 2011. Track map of Tropical Cyclone Yasi. I have just seen the barometric trace from the Clump Point tide gauge,operated by DERM, The category five cyclone brought wind gusts of up to 285km/h and … The other side of that argument is that with the huge coastal population increase, boat dwellers etc, if the force had been comparable to a century ago you would expect more deaths and wreckage sustained. Another La Niña event caused major damage to Queensland when Tropical Cyclone Yasi crossed the north Queensland coast in February 2011, destroying homes, crops and businesses. It was the biggest storm in Queensland's history, with more than 10,000 people moved from their homes. good comment there lmwd! Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi began developing as a tropical low northwest of Fiji on 29th January and started tracking on a general westward track. Seems it weakened a bit before it came ashore, and immediate damage was not as bad as feared. On the 10 March 1918, when Innisfail, Qld, was hit by a cyclone, it was a town of 3,500 people. Jonathan Nott is an expert on the incidence of super cyclones. Some of the anecdotes from Tully Heads are amazing – furniture sucked out of houses and just disappeared over roofs. Also, as much as I hate saying this, the Media probably aided in some way to keeping us all in a heightened state of awareness. for wind speed enthusiasts there are calculations and also comments about wind speed in his preceding post Cyclone Yasi knocks out weather instruments on Willis Island Recent severe weather is a sign of what is to come this summer, the Bureau of Meteorology says, with the predicted La Niña event to reach a "similar strength" to the system that brought Cyclone Yasi and major flooding to Queensland nearly a decade ago. Step back Step forward. But the system is not expected to be as bad as that which brought Cyclone Yasi and the devastating south-east floods in 2011. Australian Government Geoscience, 2013, Hazards– What is a Cyclone? This is the highest level on the Seffir-Simpson Scale and Category 5 is reserved for storms with winds exceeding 155 mph (69 m/s; 135 kn; 249 km/h). But La Nina has in the past brought devastating storms, including in 2010-12 when Cyclone Yasi thrashed far north Queensland and caused millions of dollars in damage. Frightening and Catastrophic. Joan was a severe tropical cyclone with maximum measured wind gusts of 208 km/h. 1978 – CYCLONE ALBY (Category 4) This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. It shows the eye coming ashore at Bingil Bay, and Mission beach is on Bingil Bay. We infer that the deposits were formed by storms with recurrence intervals of two to three centuries8, 9, 10, 11, and we show that the cyclones responsible must have been of extreme intensity (central pressures less than 920 hPa). I suspect they chose Bathurst Bay so they still had Princess Charlotte Bay as a last resort. It was physically the largest system seen in the Coral Sea for a long,long time. Copyright © 2014 - 2018 Jennifer Marohasy. Storm surge and large waves caused coastal inundation and erosion from Perth to Busselton, while fires fanned by the very strong winds burned an estimated 114,000 hectares of forest and farming land. Full recovery of coral reefs from tropical cyclone (TC) damage can take decades, making cyclones a major driver of habitat condition where they occur regularly. I think you got it right with the latex gum. Townsville windspeed never reached 100km/h and at 3.30 are 89 – gusts reached 135 (1.23-1.30am) and have decr to 119 @ 3.30. Tropical Cyclone Alby passed close to the southwest corner of WA on 4 April 1978, killing five people and causing widespread but mostly minor damage to the southwest. After Cyclone Larry in 2006 it is thought that about one third of the cassowaries at Mission Beach died from starvation. The Federal Government put the damage bill at $1.5 billion. Cardwell – 200 homes destroyed, Mission Beach and Tully lost 20 homes each. Earlier in Justin’s lifecycle, 30 people were killed in Papua New Guinea and five people died when their yacht was destroyed. This proved that the zone of windspeeds averaging 60 knots-near hurricane force- was AT LEAST 150km wide. For instance, when you live on a boat, you don’t hang around harbours, you get some sea room. Seven lives were lost when two fishing trawlers were sunk off the coast from Onslow, while one motorist drowned while attempting to cross a flooded creek near Carnarvon. Emily crossed the Queensland coast in late March 1972, just to the southeast of Gladstone, Qld. 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