Queensland Reconstruction Authority

Built World

Coordinating disaster recovery and assistance applications

Severe Tropical Cyclone Narelle made a second landfall near Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory on March 22 as a Category 3 system with wind gusts reaching 185 kilometres per hour, just hours after crossing the Gulf of Carpentaria. The storm had previously struck far north Queensland on March 20 as a high-end Category 4 system—the most powerful cyclone to cross the Queensland coast since Cyclone Yasi in 2011—flattening banana farms, cutting power to thousands of properties, and dumping up to 500 millimetres of rain across the Cape York Peninsula.

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