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Severe Tropical Cyclone Ilsa was a powerful tropical cyclone that struck Western Australia in April 2023. The sixth named storm , and the fifth severe tropical cyclone of the 2022–23 Australian region cyclone season , Ilsa formed from a tropical low off the coast of Indonesia on 6 April.
February 15, 1950 - After crossing Madagascar, a cyclone struck eastern Mozambique and moved across much of Africa, eventually reaching northern Namibia. [3] [4]April 15, 1952 - A cyclone moved ashore southeastern Tanzania near Lindi with maximum sustained winds estimated at 180 km/h (110 mph); this made the cyclone the strongest on record to strike the country. [5]
Cyclone Freddy in the Australian region and South-West Indian Ocean [12] [13] Highest Accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) index for a season: 570 during the 1997 Pacific typhoon season: January 19, 1997 – December 23, 1997: Northwest Pacific Ocean [14] Highest number of rapid intensification cycles for a tropical cyclone: 7: February 4, 2023 ...
The name Ilsa has been used for one tropical cyclone in the Atlantic Ocean, three in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, and three in the Australian region. In the Atlantic: Hurricane Ilsa (1958) – a Category 2 hurricane that engaged in a Fujiwhara interaction with Hurricane Helene and caused beach erosion in Bermuda
Severe Tropical Cyclone Ilsa made landfall early Friday morning local time in Northwest Australia, between De Grey and Pardoo Roadhouse as a Category 4 storm (BOM's tropical cyclone scale) with 10 ...
The most intense tropical cyclone in the South-West Indian Ocean was Cyclone Gafilo. By 10-minute sustained wind speed, the strongest tropical cyclone in the South-West Indian Ocean was Cyclone Fantala. Storms with an intensity of 920 hPa (27.17 inHg) or less are listed. Storm information was less reliably documented and recorded before 1985. [6]
The Australian region tropical cyclone basin is located to the south of the Equator between 90°E and 160°E and is officially monitored by the Indonesian Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi, dan Geofisika (BMKG), Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the Papua New Guinea National Weather Service. [1]
The HDP index was later modified to further include tropical storms, that is, all wind speeds of at least 34 knots (≥ 63 km/h; 39 mph), [4] to become the accumulated cyclone energy index. [6] The highest ACE calculated for a single tropical cyclone on record worldwide is 87.01, set by Cyclone Freddy in 2023. [7]