Ultimately intensifying Cause_change_of_strength into an upper-end Category 3 severe tropical cyclone Catastrophe with maximum sustained Damaging 10-minute winds of 155 km/h ( 100 mph ) , Lua made landfall Arriving near the remote community of Pardoo , about 150 km ( 95 mi ) east of Port Hedland .

The Pardoo Roadhouse bore the brunt of the storm Catastrophe , and damage Damaging was reported Reporting at several other cattle stations and homesteads ; at these sites , the storm Catastrophe damaged Damaging the exteriors of various structures and brought Bringing down swaths of trees .

Thereafter , interaction with land caused Causation its core to collapse before the system made Manufacturing landfall near Pardoo Station .