Each year we get tons of questions about what cyclone occured when and where it went. Yes the database is not complete in that it starts in 1906 and ends in 2007.

http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/silo/cyclones.cgi?region=aus&syear=2006&eyear=2006&loc=0

Click on a start year and then on the end year i.e. 2006 and 2008 and wait for the page to laod to see two seasons worth of data presented in map form with individual cyclones indicated by coloured lines.

Click on a line and it will show you the information about the cyclone, date formed, pressure, wind speed etc. In later track maps the dots along the track map indicated observations and clicking on them will again give you a even more detailed information.

Ahh Pierre, my favourite non threatening TC in that it was in late May.
No windworker SBT?

has there been any cyclones that have impacted the Kingaroy region?

Not in a very long time

I was going to put up the Windworker link but that only deals with Queensland Cyclones and I deliberately wanted this to be an Australian wide resource Boomer but if anyone wants to look at the Queensland Cyclones to 2004 just click on the link.

Combined 101 years of cyclone tracks

Windworker is by no means an exhaustive list though.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/13629530?searchTerm=burketown%20cyclone&searchLimits=
Thats a link to a newspaper article about one in the gulf.
I know a fair bit about this one, (March 1887) which destroyed Burketown and Kimberly (the old telegraph station, now named Karumba) and bits of normanton. Mostly because, my ancestors were there....my g.g.g.g aunt, and her 2 infant sons were washed away in the storm surge, while her husband, a policeman, was away in normanton. It's all detailed in the article (she's the "Higman" woman.)
They found one kids body high in a tree, and another, days later, miles down the albert.

I know it isn't Boxey but it is the best resource that I could find and as I said above only covers Queensland until 2004. That there will be ommisions is a given as there was no offical reporting process for many years and yes that will mean cyclones will not be recorded.

The BoM only became an entity on 1 Jan 1908. Before that each state and colony was responsible for recording their own met data. Some of this has been transfered but a great deal of it isn't available as it is in state archieves and isn't online.

Any records from previous state organisations would have to be researched and collated into a database. Good luck getting that done without an act of Parliment. You also have to look at reporting prior to 1908. Most out lying areas relied on shipping to carriy reports back to state captitals.

Do they accept additions? I could send them the link. If I was a writer, I'd write a book about that cyclone. Not only are the newspaper reports an amazing read, I also have the policemans file...which includes letters about how the body of the baby was discovered up the albert, telegrams etc. Really moving stuff.

I don't know Boxey you would have to write to them and find out. http://www.bom.gov.au/other/feedback/ is their feedback page. I am pretty sure that they would be interested in whatever you could supply regarding the event. As a matter of fact I would be very interested in it as well. PM sent.

Huh...just found a bit of a spiel on the bom site....it is under the history bit, but the GOC part.
This is it - http://www.bom.gov.au/cyclone/history/gulf.shtml
"5 March 1887 From all reports, the storm surge from the disastrous 1887 cyclone, flooded almost all of Burketown. Only the highest part of town, near where the Council Office is currently located, escaped the waters from the Gulf of Carpentaria. A copy of a 1918 report to the Queensland Parliament from the Department of Harbours and Rivers Engineers refers to the sea rising to 5.5 metres above the highest spring tide level at the Albert River Heads. This level is about 8 metres above Australian Height Datum. 7 people out of a population of 138 died in the cyclone. Storm winds commenced at 11 am from the SE and backed to the E and the NE increasing in violence until 10 pm when virtually the whole of Burketown was devastated. The storm surge arrived at 7 pm."

Did you PM me, SBT? It hasn't showed up if so.

PM sent 12.05

Been busy clearing out 40 odd spammers from my forum. lol.

Thats a pretty dry (no pun intended) report and if you could add some colour to it from first hand accounts it would make a great read.

Boxsey, yep that TC certainly happened. I am extremely interested in that time frame in and around Burketown both weather and human wise.
I am deep in throes of writing a book about that region within that time frame. In particular, I am after notable weather events in late October 1889 that pushed inland to Lawn Hill station (the 27th to be exact LOL... but there other dates). Any info from the1860s to 1892 both weather and human wise would be greatly appreciated
FYI Boxsey, Burketown was also wiped out in the 1860s when cerebral malaria devastated the town and caused an evacuation to Sweers Island (it has also been smashed by TC's several times in its history).
It would be greatly appreciated if anybody with any further information could PM me.
PS Great thread SBT
PPS Boxsey (I will PM you)... keep digging in Trove... you will find more, it's a brilliant resource

Here's a really good account of Boxsey's TC (2000+ words)
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/...n&searchLimits=

Great people are interested!

I did a lot of research into Burketown over a decade ago....when I found my family connection to the area. I had worked in the area for a year...with no clue of my connection. When i found it, I was fascinated. So, I knew about the "ague" that decimated the population in the 1860's, and had them move to sweers.
All my stuff is copies made from microfilm. Some of it is now digitised an available at the above link. Haven't found all of it on there though...most of it's repeated word for word though in each newspaper.
This, from normanton...http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/3464661?searchTerm=normanton%208th%20March%20&searchLimits=
"The Assistant Engineer-in-Chief for Har-
bours and Rivers received the following
telegram, dated Normanton, 8th March, from
Mr. E. A. Cullen, nautical surveyor, who is
carrying out surveys in the Gulf of Carpen-
taria :-"A fresh gale from the northward oc-
curred on Saturday with heavy rain squalls:
the barometer indicated 29.84in. at its lowest.
There was a very heavy sea running, and a
remarkable high tide. This tide was 2ft. 6in.
higher than the highest tide of last year. The
beacon in the channel is gone, and the pilot
boats were washed away. I shall have to
again examine the channel through the banks,
to determine if outer banks have shifted. The
weather is still bad, but the sea is not so heavy,
and the winds are moderate. "

Excellent work Boxey. Might be a good subject for a wiki entry if WZ had a wiki that is.

I just used a converter....29.84inches is 1010.49. Doesn't sound right, does it?

the last cylone to affect Kingaroy would have been during the 1890s when most of SEQ went underwater from three cyclones in succession.

SBT.... a mate of mine may have a copy of a list put together by a former BOM boss and is trying to track it down.
It does apparently include the 1887 Burketown event.
On that event I hereby put forward the motion that hereafter the unnamed be named on WZ as TC Boxsey or TC Higband in honour of Boxsey's ancestors who died in the storm.

LOL. Yeah, I found a reference to it on the BOM site...(see above).
I will work on putting together what I have and posting a seperate thread to keep it all together for prosperity's sake. May take some time.

Good stuff Boomer. Hmm how to confuse people by unoffically renaming cyclones but what the hell yeah TC Boxey sounds pretty good. Lol