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The 1973 Flores cyclone was the deadliest known tropical cyclone in the Southern Hemisphere, having killed 1,653 people in Indonesia in April 1973. The cyclone formed in the Banda Sea on 26 April as a tropical low. It intensified as it moved in a west-southwest direction, before shifting to the south.
1973 Flores cyclone, the deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded in both Indonesia and the entire Southern Hemisphere. Indonesia is an island country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, located in the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean.
The 1972–73 Australian region cyclone season was an above-average tropical cyclone season, in terms of activity. Additionally, it is also the deadliest tropical cyclone season recorded in the Australian region, with the Flores cyclone killing an estimated 1,650 people alone, making it single-deadliest tropical cyclone recorded in the entire Southern Hemisphere.
A collage of the ten deadliest tropical cyclones worldwide since 1990 This is a list of the deadliest tropical cyclones , including all known storms that caused at least 1,000 direct deaths. There were at least 76 tropical cyclones in the 20th century with a death toll of 1,000 or more, including the deadliest tropical cyclone in recorded history.
Pages in category "Tropical cyclones in Indonesia" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. ... 1973 Flores cyclone; G. Typhoon Gaemi; Cyclone ...
Pages in category "1973 in Indonesia" ... 1973 Flores cyclone This page was last edited on 25 May 2024, at 20:41 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Collectively, tropical cyclones caused more than US$1.2 trillion in damage, unadjusted for inflation, and have killed more than 2.6 million people. Most of these deaths were caused by a few deadly cyclones, including the 1737 Calcutta cyclone , the 1839 Coringa cyclone , the 1931 Shanghai typhoon , the 1970 Bhola cyclone , Typhoon Nina in 1975 ...
1972–73 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone season (1 C, 3 P) 1973–74 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone season (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Tropical cyclones in 1973"