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Severe weather hazards

Many hazardous events are associated with severe weather. Understanding how these hazards might affect you can help you to be better prepared for their impacts.

Severe thunderstorms

Learn about how thunderstorms form and what makes them severe 

Thunderstorm phenomena

Severe thunderstorms can produce large hail, damaging wind gusts, heavy rainfall and tornadoes 

Tornadoes

Learn more about how tornadoes form 

East Coast Lows

These intense low-pressure systems are characteristic of the eastern coastline of Australia 

Tropical severe thunderstorms

Thunderstorms in northern Australia are quite different from those of south and central Australia 

Other types of severe weather

Severe weather also refers to other hazardous weather that is not solely related to severe thunderstorms, tropical cyclones or bushfires 

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