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The 2000-01 Australian region cyclone season was an event in the ongoing cycle of tropical cyclone formation. It began on November 1, 2000 and ended on April 30, 2001. The regional tropical cyclone operational plan also defines a tropical cyclone year separately from a tropical cyclone season, which runs from July 1, 2000 to June 30, 2001.
Tropical cyclones in this area are monitored by four Tropical Cyclone Warning Centres (TCWCs): the Australian Bureau of Meteorology in Perth, Darwin, and Brisbane; and TCWC Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea.[1]
[edit] Storms
[edit] Severe Tropical Cyclone Sam
Cyclone Sam was an intense Category 5 cyclone that did heavy damage cross northwestern Australia. The cyclone damaged a train station and knocked down trees. There were no deaths.
[edit] Tropical Cyclone Terri
Terri formed on January 28, 2001 near the northern Kimberley coast. The storm paralleled the coast, reaching category 2 strength before making landfall near Pardoo on January 31. The storm dissipated on February 1.[1]
[edit] Tropical Cyclone Winsome
Winsome was a weak system that developed from a low in the Gulf of Carpentaria on February 8.
[edit] Tropical Cyclone Vincent
Cyclone Vincent formed on February 12, 2001, 900 km northwest of Onslow, Western Australia from an active monsoonal trough. Wind shear prevented the tropical low from intensifying for a few days, but once the storm formed it began to move southeast and intensify. Soon it intensified into a Category 2 cyclone. Wind shear soon became stronger and Cyclone Vincent weakened to a Category 1 cyclone. Cyclone Vincent crossed the Western Australia coast as a tropical low, a few km south of Broome, Western Australia.
[edit] Tropical Cyclone Wylva
Tropical Cyclone Wylva hit the coast of Australia in February 2001. Although it was a weak Category 1 cyclone when it peaked in strength, it caused heavy damage when it made landfall. Heavy rain produced a record-breaking flood, which washed down the Victoria River[citation needed]. Damages were worth $13 million dollars and 700 people were evacuated from the dangerous flood waters.[citation needed]
[edit] Tropical Low (10P)
This storm moved from Brisbane's area of responsibility into Fiji's on February 16. It dissipated on the 18th.
[edit] Severe Tropical Cyclone Abigail
On February 24, 2001, Cyclone Abigail formed about 80 km northeast of Cairns, Australia. It then made landfall in Queensland as a Category 1 storm.
[edit] Severe Tropical Cyclone Walter
Walter was a storm that formed east of Christmas Island and tracked westward at a low latitude.
[edit] Tropical Cyclone Alistair
The second most damaging cyclone of the 2000-01 Cyclone season, Alistair made landfall close to Carnarvon on April 24, 2001 as a poorly organized cyclone. The centre passed just to the north of town with a wind gust to 67 kilometres per hour from the northeast recorded at 4:11 am. Minimum pressure of 1002.9 hPa was recorded at 5 am, followed by the peak recorded wind gust of 90 kilometres per hour from the southeast at 6 am. A total of 24 mm of rainfall was reported in Carnarvon. Plantations to the north of Carnarvon reported 30-40 % crop losses, with wind estimates of 100 to 110 kilometres per hour. [2]
[edit] Storm names
Tropical cyclones are assigned names by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology or Papua New Guinea.
Tropical cyclones are named if they are non-frontal low pressure systems of synoptic scale developing over warm waters, or Dvorak intensity analysis indicate the presence of gale force or stronger winds near the centre. Therefore, a tropical system with gales in one or more quadrants, but not near the centre, are not named.[2]
All names assigned in the Australian region are used sequentially, unlike lists used annually by the National Hurricane Centre in the Atlantic Ocean and east Pacific Ocean. Only the names used during this cyclone season are listed below. The complete list of names for each basin are found in the World Meteorological Organization's official list.
[edit] Southeast Indian Ocean
Tropical cyclones that develop east of 90°E, south of the Equator, and west of 125°E are assigned names by the Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre in Perth, Western Australia.[1]
[edit] Arafura Sea and Western Gulf of Carpentaria
Tropical cyclones that develop south of the Equator between 125°E and 141°E are assigned names by the Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre in Darwin, Northern Territory.[1]
[edit] Coral Sea and Eastern Gulf of Carpentaria
Tropical cyclones that develop south of 10°S between 141°E and 160°E are assigned names by the Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre in Brisbane, Queensland.[1]
[edit] Solomon Sea and Gulf of Papua
Tropical cyclones that develop north of 10°S between 141°E and 160°E are assigned names by the Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.[1]
No tropical cyclone names were used in the 2000-01 season.
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