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What started the 1974 floods cyclone Tracy or cyclone Wanda?
Cyclone Wanda was responsible for the 1974 floods in Brisbane and Ipswich. Cyclone Tracy, which hit Darwin at the end of the year, brought very little rain.
Was cyclone Tracy a category 6?
No. There is no Category 6. Tracy was a category 4 on the Australian scale.
Is Australia equipped to cope with a category 4 cyclone?
Easily. Australia has developed excellent emergency management programmes which, together with higher building standards, limit the damage done by cyclones. Australia experiences over a dozen cyclones every year along its coastline, and many of these are category 4. Examples of category 4 or higher cyclones which Australia has handled include Cyclone Yasi - 2010 (category 5), Cyclone Ingrid - 2005 (category 4/5), Cyclone George - 2007 (category 5). Cyclone Tracy was a category 4. The reason it devastated Darwin was that this was before current cyclone standards were put into place.
What category was cyclone Zoe?
It was a Category 5 storm. It is one of the worst Cyclones reported.
How did Cyclone Wanda get its name?
At that stage, cyclones were named alphabetically as they occurred. Because of the date it occurred, the meteorologists were up to the letter 'W', and Wanda was simply the name that was chosen.
What is the nature of disaster of gonu in Oman?
It was a category 5 cyclone
How extreme was cyclone yasi?
All cyclones vary in intensity with time. Yasi started out as a Category 3 cyclone but on 2 February it intensified to a Category 5 system (the most powerfull there is).
What did Cyclone Tracy strike?
Cyclone Tracy was a category 4 cyclone which struck the city of Darwin, in Australia's Northern Territory, in the early hours of Christmas Day 1974.
Was cyclone mahina a tropical cyclone?
Yes, cyclone Mahina was a category 5 tropicalcyclone and it hit north Queensland on the 4th of March 1899.It killed 307 people.
How devastating was cyclone Tracy?
Cyclone Tracy was a category 4 cyclone which hit Darwin, in Australia's Northern Territory, in the early hours of Christmas Day 1974. The winds were so strong that they blew away the instruments at the airport, suggesting that the cyclone was actually category 5 when it hit. 71 people were killed. It wiped out about 70% of the town, which has since been rebuilt to be as cyclone-proof as it possibly can.
Why did cyclone Tracy cause so much damage?
because cyclone Tracy is so powerful it's like category 5
What was Cyclone Tracy?
Cyclone Tracy was a category 4 cyclone which began as a tropical storm in the Arafura Sea. It hit Darwin, in Australia's Northern Territory, in the early hours of Christmas Day 1974. The winds were so strong that they blew away the instruments at the airport, suggesting that the cyclone was actually category 5 when it hit. It wiped out about 70% of the town, which has since been rebuilt to be as cyclone-proof as it possibly can.
