2009 - Cyclone Ellie makes landfall as a Category 1 tropical cyclone near
Mission Beach, Queensland. About 50 homes were flooded, and damages were up to
AU$110 million (US$69.5 million).
February 2
1968 - Cyclone Georgette dissipated after being active for 24 days in the south-west Indian Ocean, the longest tracked storm in the basin. The storm killed 32 people along its path.
1994 - Cyclone Geralda(pictured) struck eastern Madagascar as one of the strongest tropical cyclones to hit the island since 1925. Geralda killed 231 people.
1990 - Cyclone Ofa passed near the
Samoan Islands near peak intensity, causing heavy damage and eight deaths across Polynesia.
2011 - Cyclone Yasi(pictured) makes landfall in northern
Queensland. Despite killing only one person, the storm ended up being the costliest tropical cyclone in the Australian basin, with damages topping up to US$3.6 billion.
February 4
1986 - Cyclone Erinesta(pictured) reached peak intensity near
Tromelin Island in the south-west Indian Ocean, with estimated 10-minute sustained winds of 170 km/h (105 mph).
2002 - Cyclone Francesca reached peak intensity with 1-minute sustained winds of 215 km/h (130 mph).
2010 - Cyclone Oli moved through
French Polynesia, where it killed one person and left US$70 million in damage.
February 5
1977 - Cyclone Emilie moved ashore Mozambique, where flooding killed about 300 people.
2002 - Cyclone Chris(pictured) reached its peak intensity with 230
km/h (145
mph) winds before making landfall in a sparsely populated area of
Western Australia.
February 6
2003 - Cyclone Beni(pictured) impacted the
Queensland coast as a weakening system. Beni caused heavy flooding in
Central Queensland that killed one person and caused $10 million of damage.
2009 - Cyclone Gael(pictured) reaches peak strength as an intense tropical cyclone off the coast of
Madagascar. Only 2 people were killed by the cyclone.
1994 - Cyclone Hollanda(pictured) struck
Mauritius in the south-west Indian Ocean, killing two people and leaving 1,500 people homeless.
2015 - Typhoon Higos attained its peak intensity with 1-minute sustained winds of 215 km/h (130 mph), becoming the easternmost, and second strongest storm in the month of February in the Northwest Pacific ocean.
2019 - Cyclone Gelena passed by the archipelago of
Mauritius as an intense tropical cyclone. Overall damage on the island were about US$1 million.
2005 – Cyclone Nancy(pictured) moved through the
Cook Islands in the South Pacific Ocean, the second of four powerful cyclones to affect the archipelago.
2010 – Cyclone Dineo struck southern Mozambique, killing 280 people across southeastern Africa.
February 16
2005 - Cyclone Olaf(pictured) reached its peak intensity with winds of 270
km/h (165
mph) to the northeast of
American Samoa. Olaf caused over $10 million of damage on the islands.
2008 - Cyclone Ivan(pictured) made landfall on
Madagascar, causing 93 deaths and heavy damage.
February 18
2002 - Cyclone Guillaume(pictured) reached peak intensity of 205 km/h (125 mph) by 10-minute sustained winds.
February 19
2015 - Cyclones Lam and Marcia(both pictured) struck different parts of Australia, marking the first time on record that two storms of Category 4 intensity struck the country on the same day. Lam moved ashore
Northern Australia, causing widespread flooding. Six hours later, Marcia made landfall on
Queensland as a Category 5 severe tropical cyclone.
2016 - Cyclone Winston(pictured) became the most intense Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone on record while making landfall in
Fiji, killing 44 people.
2013 - Tropical Storm Shanshan(pictured) intensifies into a tropical storm, whilst the storm damages
₱11.2 million (US$255 thousand) in southern
Philippines.
2019 - Typhoon Wutip(pictured) reached its peak intensity with 1-minute sustained winds of 270 km/h (165 mph), making it the strongest typhoon on record in the month of February.
February 24
1970 - Typhoon Nancy(pictured) reached peak intensity as a Category 4 typhoon, which is one of a very few storms to achieve typhoon category in the month of February.
2007 - Cyclone Gamede(pictured) dropped 1,625 mm (64.0 in) of rainfall over a 24 hour period on
Réunion in the south-west Indian Ocean, part of a nine-day precipitation total of 5.5
m (18
ft). Floods caused US$120 million in damage and four deaths.
February 26
2004 - Cyclone Ivy moved through
Vanuatu in the South Pacific Ocean near peak intensity, with 10 minute winds of 165 km/h (105 mph). Ivy killed two people in the country.
2013 - Cyclone Rusty(pictured) reached peak intensity as it stalled offshore
Western Australia, moving ashore a day later. Rusty caused US$510 million in damage.
February 27
1960 - Cyclone Carol struck Mauritius, killing 40 people and leaving heavy damage.
2014 - Cyclone Kofi(pictured) moved through
Fiji, causing flooding.