List of cyclones in Western Australia

This is a list of cyclones gazetted as disasters in Western Australia:

Name Start date Region Dead Injured Affected Homeless Estimated total cost Remarks
24 December 1875 Exmouth Gulf 69 $0M Cyclone hovered in Exmouth Gulf for nearly two weeks; 69 lives lost, mostly on ships at sea in the area.
1 April 1884 Lagrange 140 $0M Forty vessels of a pearling fleet sunk with 140 lives lost.
1 January 1894 Port Hedland 45 $0M 45 people killed at sea; another 21 lives lost in subsequent flooding at Geraldton
1 March 1898 Port Hedland $0M £30,000 damage to Cossack, shipping damaged.
12 January 1908 Broome 50 $0M Most deaths at sea.
1 April 1909 Dampier 24 $0M 24 people killed at Onslow
11 January 1910 Broome 37 $0M 37 lives lost in the Broome region.
1 March 1912 Port Hedland 149 $0M SS Koombana sunk.
28 March 1934 Dampier $0M 75% of homes in Onslow destroyed.
3 January 1935 Broome 141 $0M
24 January 1961 Bunbury $0M a tropical cyclone in the north created hot, windy conditions in the south, igniting the 1961 Western Australian bushfires.
1 February 1965 Carnarvon $0M Carnarvon's banana crop destroyed; Liberian oil tanker Bridgewater broke in two but was rescued by the Italian tanker Elios
Cyclone Beverley 1 March 1975 Dampier $7.5M
1 July 1975 WA $7M
Cyclone Joan 8 December 1975 Port Hedland 5 1000 20 $74M Extensive damage to Port Hedland; Port Hedland Hospital destroyed.
Cyclone Alby 27 March 1978 Perth 3 10 4000 20 $39M Caused the most widespread cyclone damage in Western Australia's history. Destroyed a large portion of the Busselton Jetty.
Cyclone Hazel 1 March 1979 Carnarvon 15 5 2000 10 $41M Taiwanese fishing vessel sunk of Carnarvon with loss of 15 lives.
1 January 1980 Multiple Regions 5 $12M
Cyclone Dean 1 February 1980 Kalgoorlie 7 1000 10 $11M Damage to mining infrastructure
Cyclone Errol 1 January 1982 North-Western $0M Flooding
1 February 1982 WA $3.6M
1 April 1983 WA $3M
1 February 1984 $0M
1 January 1986 Wyndham $2.5M
Cyclone Connie 1 January 1987 Port Hedland $2.5M
19 May 1988 Carnarvon 2000 $30M Heavy damage to towns from Carnarvon to Denham; bulk ore-carrier Korean Star sunk.
Cyclone Ilona 15 December 1988 Port Hedland $2.4M
Cyclone Orson 23 April 1989 Multiple Regions 2 20 1000 60 $2.4M Damaged offshore oil and gas rigs; one n fisherman drowned; damage to Dampier, Karratha and Panawonica.
Cyclone Fifi 15 April 1991 Multiple Regions 29 10 2000 $0M Mineral Diamond sunk with loss of 27 lives; extensive damage to properties in Perth.
Cyclone Bobby 23 February 1995 Dampier 7 15 7000 30 $11M Extensive damage to Onslow; two fishing trawlers sunk with 7 lives lost; widespread flooding and infrastructure damage.
Cyclone Frank 8 December 1995 Exmouth Gulf 2 500 20 $0M
Cyclone Gertie 18 December 1995 Port Hedland 200 $0M Minor damage only
Cyclone Kirsty 12 March 1996 Port Hedland 400 50 $0M
Cyclone Lindsay 1 July 1996 Carnarvon $0M Flooding
Cyclone Olivia 8 April 1996 Dampier 10 1500 250 $2M Had the fastest ever non-tornado wind gust recorded on Earth
26 January 1998 Port Hedland 7 $0M Seven people were rescued from the Indian Ocean after their boat sank.
3 January 1999 Perth $0M Moora and Geraldton flooded.
Cyclone John 10 December 1999 Port Hedland 1 1000 40 $0M Australia's strongest cyclone to that date.
Cyclone Sam 8 December 2000 Multiple Regions $0M Bidyadanga evacuated.
Cyclone Chris 7 February 2002 Port Hedland $0M Warralong Aboriginal Community badly damaged, Nullagine flooded.
Cyclone Monty 3 February 2004 Pilbara $0M The Ashburton river, Robe river, Fortescue River Maitland river and Harding River were all in flood. Water level peak at 3.9 meters above the Harding River dam. [1]
Cyclone Ingrid 10 March 2005 NT, QLD and WA $0M Widespread damage in Queensland and the Northern Territory; in Western Australia, houses in Kalumburu were damaged.
Cyclone George 8 March 2007 Port Hedland 3 28 $0M Extensive damage in Port Hedland, killed three people in small mining camps south of the town. Worst cyclone since Joan in 1975.[2]

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References

  1. ^ BoM - Tropical Cyclone Monty
  2. ^ Tropical Cyclone Tropical Cyclone George Impacts

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