1999 Sydney hailstorm

The 1999 Sydney hailstorm was the costliest natural disaster in the history of Australia. It caused a lot of damage along the east coast of New South Wales. The storm developed south of Sydney on 14 April 1999 and hit the city's eastern suburbs later that day.Zillman (1999), 19.

The storm dropped roughly 500,000 tonnes of hailstones.Steingold, et al. (1999), 2.Henri (1999), 16. Insurance companies had to pay  over A$1.7 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ) to people who had their property damaged.Schuster, et al. (2005), 1. The total cost, including damage the insurance companies did not have to pay for, is roughly $2.3 billion.Emergency Management Australia (2006).Coenraads (2006), 229. It was the costliest natural disaster in Australian history in damage paid for by insurance companies. The costliest natural disaster used to be the 1989 Newcastle earthquake. Lightning also killed one person during the storm, and the storm caused roughly 50 injuries.Bureau of Meteorology (2007).Emergency Management Australia (2003), 61.

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1999 hailstorm