Miners, cattle ranchers, tourists and Indigenous locals were evacuating from Australia's remote northwest coast on Wednesday as an intensifying tropical cyclone approached.
Cyclone Ilsa is expected to peak as a Category 4 storm as it crosses the sparsely populated Pilbara coast of Western Australia state somewhere between the iron ore export town of Port Hedland in the west and the tourist town of Broome in the east late Thursday or early Friday, Australia's Bureau of Meteorology said."Any areas ... where that system does cross the coast are going to experience some very destructive winds, winds in excess of 200 kph .
A Category 4 cyclone has a maximum mean wind speed of 160 kph to 199 kph with wind gusts of 225 kph to 279 kph . A Category 4 typically causes significant roofing loss, structural damage, dangerous airborne debris and widespread power failure. Category 5 Cyclone Veronica in March 2019 did not cross the Pilbara coast, but damaged infrastructure and disrupted the region's mining and offshore gas industry.
Workers at the 200,000-hectare Wallal Downs Station cattle ranch, Newcrest's Telfer gold and copper mine and trailer parks were being evacuated, along with non-critical workers at BHP's iron ore mining, rail and port operations across the region, Klemm said.
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