Please note, although your property may not have been directly affected by this

event, the event has been included in your suburb listing because according to the Bureau of Meteorology river gauge data, a catchment near your suburb recorded a high mark. This event may have affected your suburb.

Disastrous and most severe

on record at Mackay (associated with intense ), where 24.70 inches fell in 24 hours. Twenty lives lost; enormous damage to property. All rivers between Townsville and Gladstone affected. Unprecedented floods in the Burdekin and Fitzroy Rivers. Highest flood on record at Rockhampton (31 ft 11 in); two or three lives lost. Man drowned at Townsville. Portion of Don River B at Bowen washed away. High floods experienced in all tributaries of Fitzroy and Burdekin Rivers, especially the Dawson, Mackenzie, Comet and Nogoa Rivers.