Cyclone Guba
| Category 3 cyclone ( Australian scale ) | ||||
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| Category 1 cyclone ( SSHWS ) | ||||
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| Emergence | November 11, 2007 | |||
| resolution | November 20, 2007 | |||
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| Lowest air pressure | 970 hPa ( mbar ) | |||
| dead | 170 | |||
| Property damage | $ 71.4 million (2007) | |||
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Affected areas |
Papua New Guinea | |||
| Season overview: Australian cyclone season 2007/2008 |
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Cyclone Guba ( JTWC designation: 02P , also known as Heavy Tropical Cyclone Guba ) was a tropical cyclone that wreaked havoc on Papua New Guinea, killing 170 people. The first named storm of the 2007/2008 Australian cyclone season formed on November 13th and was classified as a tropical cyclone by the Tropical Cyclone Warning Center (TCWC) in Brisbane the next day. The name Guba was assigned by the TCWC in Port Moresby . The system meandered through the northern coral seas for a week, intensifying into a severe tropical cyclone in category 3 on the Australian cyclone scale on November 16. At times the system posed a threat to the Australian Cape York Peninsula . Guba remained at sea and completely disintegrated on November 20.
Storm course
The Tropical Cyclone Warning Center in Brisbane began issuing warnings of a developing tropical depression on November 13, 2007 when it was in southern Papua New Guinea. At around the same time, the JTWC triggered a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert and a few hours later started issuing storm warnings; the JTWC named the system Tropical Cyclone 02P . The TCWC in Brisbane declared in the morning of November 14th the danger of a cyclone in the area of the northern coast along the Cape York Peninsula and the offshore islands and shortly afterwards it was upgraded to Tropical Cyclone Guba. Guba found itself on a stray course off the Queensland coast for two days and the cyclone warnings were revoked as TCWC Brisbane expected slow development. Guba then moved south and intensified on November 16 into a severe tropical cyclone in category 3 on the Australian storm scale. Guba was a small but powerful system that formed a well-defined eye . Guba was downgraded to Category 2 on November 17 and to Category 1 on November 18, after the weakening began. As the forward movement accelerated west towards Queensland, cyclone warnings resumed on November 19, as the storm was expected to intensify as it approached the mainland. However, this did not happen because Guba turned north-east during the day. On the morning of November 20, Brisbane issued the final warning of the system after Guba's intensity dropped below that of a tropical cyclone.
Effects
Floods in Papua New Guinea killed at least 170 people. In the province of Oro , around 2000 were evacuated as a result of the flood. Roads, bridges and about 40 houses were washed away as the storm surge rose about two meters in the area. In the provincial capital Popondetta , the water and electricity supplies were damaged; Roads were broken. The island nation's national airline, Air Niugini , canceled flights to and from Popondetta. The Rabaraba district in Milne Bay Province was also hit by floods, houses were washed away here too and the harvest was partially destroyed. According to the government of Papua New Guinea, around 145,000 people were affected by the floods in the province of Oro. The six days of heavy rains caused damage amounting to 200 million Kina (71.4 million USD ) and were, according to information affected the worst rains for thirty years.
consequences
The government of Papua New Guinea has declared a state of emergency for the province of Oro and provided 50 million kina. The Papua New Guinea Defense Force and local United Nations officials assisted with the relief effort. Australia made emergency supplies worth of 1,000,000 AUD available. Five Royal Australian Air Force aircraft , three Australian Army helicopters and Royal Australian Navy landing craft , as well as other Australian Army personnel participated in Operation Papua New Guinea Assist ; Australia also provided water treatment chemicals, drinking water containers, shelter, blankets and generators. AusAID put together a mission to help clean up damage to infrastructure and provide support.
records
The name of tropical cyclones in the Coral Sea is assigned by the TCWC in Port Moresby . The name Guba is a boy name in Papua New Guinea and means 'a shower of rain on the sea'.
Guba was the first tropical cyclone since Tropical Storm Epi in the Australian cyclone season 2003/2004 to be assigned a name from the list of names of the Port Moresby Meteorological Authority. Guba is the first cyclone since 1977 to affect Queensland in a November.
Individual evidence
- ^ Gale Warning for North Eastern Area: Tropical Low ( Memento November 13, 2007 on WebCite ). Bureau of Meteorology (November 13, 2007, archived November 15, 2007)
- ^ Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert ( Memento November 14, 2007 on WebCite ). Joint Typhoon Warning Center (November 13, 2007, archived November 15, 2007).
- ↑ Tropical Cyclone 02P Warning NR 001 ( Memento from November 13, 2007 on WebCite ). Joint Typhoon Warning Center (November 13, 2007, archived November 15, 2007).
- ^ Gale Warning for North Eastern Area: Tropical Cyclone Guba ( Memento of November 14, 2007 on WebCite ). Bureau of Meteorology (November 14, 2007, archived November 15, 2007).
- ^ "Aid due to reach PNG flood victims soon" ( Memento from November 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). Brisbane Times , November 24, 2007. Retrieved February 18, 2008.
- ^ A b Australian Associated Press: Guba kills three in Papua New Guinea . November 16, 2007. Retrieved February 18, 2008.
- ↑ a b c "At least 71 dead in PNG floods say officials" ( Memento of January 24, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), Agence France-Presse , November 19, 2007. (Accessed February 18 via Google News)
- ^ A b "Most recent disaster declaration: Papua New Guinea cyclone" . United States Agency for International Development . ReliefWeb. Retrieved February 18, 2008.
- ↑ Australian aid worker arrives in PNG to assist the humanitarian relief effort following Cyclone Guba . Oxfam . ReliefWeb. Retrieved February 18, 2008.
- ^ "Humanitarian relief for Papua New Guinea" . Australian Agency for International Development . ReliefWeb. Retrieved November 22, 2007.
- ↑ Johnson, Leonie. "First cyclone named" ( September 30, 2011 memento on the Internet Archive ), Townsville Bulletin , November 14, 2007.
- ↑ "Cyclone Guba stews under Southery drift" , Brisbane Times , November 15, 2007. Retrieved on 16 November, 2008.