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| Category 4 cyclone (Australian scale) | ||||
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| Category 3 cyclone (SSHS) | ||||
 Tropical Cyclone George at near landfall. |
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| Formed | March 2, 2007 | |||
| Dissipated | March 10, 2007 | |||
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| Lowest pressure | 910 hPa (mbar) or 26.08 inHg | |||
| Damage | unknown | |||
| Fatalities | 3 direct | |||
| Areas affected |
Northern Territory,Western Australia | |||
| Part of the 2006-07 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone season |
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Severe Tropical Cyclone George (also known unofficaly as Tropical Cyclone 17S by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center or simpily Cyclone George) was a powerful category 3 tropical cyclone that struck Western Australia in March 2007.
The first named storm and first cyclone of the Arafura Sea, Western Gulf of Carpentaria and Western Australian region which is part of the 2006-2007 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone season and the first storm to form in that region since Cyclone Fay in 2004, George formed from a tropical low over the Northern Territory and moved southwestward where it reached tropical cyclone status on March 3. George its first landfall on the Kimberley region of Western Australia on March 4. After briefly weakening over land, George reintensied back into a tropical cyclone on March 7. George then peaked as a Category 4 on the Australian tropical cyclone scale (Category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale) before making its final landfall near Port Hedland on March 8. George then weakened and dissapated over Western Australia on March 10.
George was the strongest tropical cyclone to hit the town of Port Hedland since Cyclone Joan in 1975.[1] In addtion, George caused three fatalites and eight injuries at a mining camp and caused severe structural and crop damage.
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