The track shows cyclone coming from the Gulf and passing over Normanton on the 4th. It then moved down through western Queensland. A fierce cyclonic storm passed about 4 miles south of Normanton at 4.30 pm on the 5th. The path was 400 metres in width; many trees blown down; six-roomed house blown off blocks and wrecked; kitchen of powder magazine blown away. May have been a cyclone spawned tornado.

Rockhampton Regional Council in partnership with the Queensland a…