Tropical Cyclone Sigma passed Townsville to the north-east. Rain totalling 510 mm fell during the cyclone resulting in enormous seas and substantial flooding.
There was a total of 18 deaths.
Cyclone - Cyclone Sigma
Quick Statistics
18
Fatalities
Information Sources
Bureau of Meteorology, Tropical cyclone impacts along the Australian east coast from November to April 1858 to 2000, website viewed 11 May 2011
Townsville Daily Bulletin, ‘Heavy rains, earlier Townsville reports’, 12 February 1946, p 2, viewed on Trove website (ID 62866585), 10 May 2011
Windworker , Queensland cyclones - cyclones to have impacted on Queensland Australia from 1864, website viewed 10 May 2011