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.
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.
Cyclone Laurence 8 December 2009 Derby, Wallal $10M Significant damage in the Pilbara and Kimberley region. Flooding rains reported as far away as SA and NSW.

Cyclone Bianca 21 January 2011 Perth 2 $0M Flooding in the Kimberley and Pilbara. Cyclone warning issued for Perth, though later downgraded.
Cyclone Carlos 13 February 2011 Darwin, Karratha, Exmouth $0M Record rainfall in Darwin, entire coastline of WA north of Carnarvon under cyclone watch at some point. Tornadoes associated with storms on the outer bands caused damage in Karratha CBD
Cyclone Heidi 9 January 2012 Port Hedland $0M Made landfall just east of Port Hedland. Heavy rain, uprooted trees and damaged powerlines in Port Hedland and Pardoo
Cyclone Lua 9 March 2012 Pardoo $0M Damage reported at Pardoo and at Yarrie. Maintained cyclone intensity as far south as Wiluna.
Cyclone Narelle 5 January 2013 Moisture from Narelle gave relief to areas of South Australia relief from intense heat over the region.

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