cyclone ita strikes australia 10-11 april 2014
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CYCLONE ITA: APRIL 10, 2011
CYCLONE ITA STRIKES AUSTRALIA
April 10-11, 2014
AUSTRALIA (Note: Queensland)
CYCLONE ITA: APRIL 10, 2011
AWAITING ITA’s LANDFALL
LANDFALL: APRIL 11, 2014 AROUND 10:00 PM
THE FORECAST
• Wind gusts of up to 280 kph (175 mph) and heavy rainfall were forecast by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.
EVACUATIONS
• Anticipating heavy rainfall, 30,000 were evacuated from low-lying areas known to be susceptible to flooding.
SOME GOOD NEWS
• Wind gusts of up to 280 kmh (175 mph) were forecast by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, - - -
• But, Ita weakened to a category 4 storm just before making landfall.
• AND, Ita’s landfall was along a portion of the coast that is lightly populated,
• so, - - -
SOME GOOD NEWS
• - - - SO, damage was much less than the $3.6 billion price tag of the last Category 4 cyclone that hit Australia’s Queensland State in 2011 —CYCLONE YASI.
SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACTS
• Impacts were comprised mainly of power outages, downed trees, damaged houses, and flooding from the heavy rainfall, but NO DEATHS yet.
• Large parts of the 1,000 strong Aboriginal community of Hope Vale and Cooktown, population 2,400, lost power.
REMEMBERING CYCLONE YASI
CYCLONE YASI STRCK NORTHERN QUEENSLAND
STATE, AUSTRALIA
The CAT 5 monster storm made landfall with winds gusting to 300 km/hr
FEBRUARY 2-3, 2011
CYCLONE YASI: FROM A TROPICAL DISTURBANCE (JAN 25) TO A CAT 5
CYCLONE YASI NEARING LANDFALL: FEBRUARY 2, 2011
500 KM (300 MI) WIDE CYCLONE YASI: FEBRUARY 2, 2011
CYCLONE YASI LANDFALL FORECAST: FEBRUARY 2, 2011
Cyclone Yasi made landfall at Mission Beach around
midnight, about 100 kilometers north of Ingham,
as a category 5 storm
The cyclone struck north of the area in Queensland that had already been severely impacted by flooding
a month earlier in January.
QUEENSLAND WAS RECOVERING FROM FLOODS IN JANUARY
With an “eye” by itself over 100 km wide, this storm was the worst cyclone in Australia's
history.
WIND PENETRATING BUILDING ENVELOPE
CYCLONESCYCLONES
UPLIFT OF ROOF SYSTEM
FLYING DEBRIS
STORM SURGE
IRREGULARITIES IN ELEVATION AND PLAN
SITING PROBLEMS
FLOODING AND LANDSLIDES
CAUSES OF DAMAGE
CAUSES OF DAMAGE
“DISASTER LABORATORIES”
“DISASTER LABORATORIES”
YASI’S INITIAL SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACTS
• Roofs torn off houses• Trees uprooted• Thousands without power• Storm surge of up to 2 meters• Up to 700 mm of rain in 1-2 hours
SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACTS
• 10,000 people evacuated over a 2-day period to 20 evacuation centers
THE BAD NEWS
The combination of Yasi’s very heavy rainfall as it moved inland and a very high water table from the January flooding exacer-bated the socioeconomic impacts.
WORST FLOODING IN A DECADE
Floodwaters had drained slowly towards the country's northeast coast, filling bulging rivers and inundating at least 22 towns and cities in the cattle and fruit and vegetable farming region.
YASI’s IMPACTS
• Socioeconomic impacts for 200 thousand people included: industrial slow-down, evacuations, a plague of snakes and crocodiles, health care problems, missing persons, 35 deaths, and losses of 3.6 Billion.
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