TC made landfall near Edward River. Heavy Flooding Carpentaria. Rail line washouts on Mt Isa Line and rail traffic delays between Croydon and Georgetown.

On Monday 26 January 1931 heavy rain and hurricane force winds at Emerald River Mission on Groote Eylandt 22 inches of rain was reported in 3 days. The river became a flood and washed away the bridge and the sawmill (also 30 cypress pine logs) _ pumping plant _ also the hydralic ram and fluming were badly damaged. Fences were down, bark roofs blown off and many trees blown down. This represented a storm surge of 15 feet.

From H L Perriman who was stationed at Groote Island Mission (Emerald River) from 1921 to 1936. TC entered Coral Sea near Cooktown and moved down to Hervey Bay. Initially serious flooding in NQ chiefly between Cairns and Ingham and a man drowned in the Russell River. Then major floods in SE Qld with 1300 homes inundated in Brisbane on 5 Feb with two drownings. Storm surge of 0.76m on Moreton Bay tide gauge.

Most of the flooding was in Breakfast Creek where 1056 houses were flooded (396 above floor level). Around noon 5 Feb before the heavy rain in the creek catchment, high tide at the mouth of Breakfast Creek tide level was 1.1 m above ordinary high water spring. The subsequent flood levels above Bowen Bridge exceeded the 1893 flood levels. Severe beach erosion, Currumbin Creek mouth breached. Large storm surge at Wynnum Manly and Hemmant on the 5th.

Rockhampton Regional Council in partnership with the Queensland a…