It was a Category 5 storm. It is one of the worst Cyclones reported.
No. There is no Category 6. Tracy was a category 4 on the Australian scale.
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.
Cyclone Wanda, which occurred in late 2021, was classified as a Category 4 tropical cyclone on the Australian tropical cyclone intensity scale. It impacted areas in the South Pacific, particularly around the Fiji region. The cyclone brought significant winds and heavy rainfall, leading to warnings and precautions in affected areas.
It was a category 5 cyclone
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).
Yes, cyclone Mahina was a category 5 tropicalcyclone and it hit north Queensland on the 4th of March 1899.It killed 307 people.
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.
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.
because cyclone Tracy is so powerful it's like category 5
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.
When still out at sea, severe Tropical Cyclone Larry was a Category 5 cyclone. By the time Larry made landfall in North Queensland near Innisfail, it was a Category 4 with wind gusts reaching 240 km/h (150 mph).
Cyclone Yasi occurred in Australia in February 2011. It was a category 5 tropical cyclone that caused significant damage to Queensland, particularly the towns of Tully and Cardwell.