Damaging windsHeavy rainPossible floodingPossible disruption to essential supplies like electricity, water, and gas
ACTION STATEMENTS:
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ADVICE TO THE PUBLIC:
Intensity
Category 1, sustained winds near the centre of 85 kilometres per hour with wind gusts to 120 kilometres per hour.
Location
Within 35 kilometres of 10.2 degrees South 132.8 degrees East, estimated to be 325 kilometres northeast of Darwin.
Movement
Tropical Cyclone Fina, currently a category 1 cyclone, is moving slowly southwest and is expected to strengthen to a category 2 system whilst tracking southwest during today. Fina is forecast to approach the Cobourg Peninsula and Tiwi Islands tonight before continuing southwest through the Van Diemen Gulf on Saturday.
Fina is forecast to further intensify to a severe tropical cyclone during Sunday afternoon in the southern Timor Sea. There continues to remain a chance that it could reach category 3 intensity earlier, during late Friday or early Saturday as it moves into the Van Diemen Gulf.
Hazards
Gales are expected to extend further west to include the Tiwi Islands during late Friday, and to Darwin during Saturday. Gales could extend inland to Gunbalanya during Saturday if Fina moves further south. Gales may extend further southwest to Batchelor and Daly River Mouth late on Saturday.
HEAVY RAINFALL which may lead to FLASH FLOODING is possible along coastal areas between the Tiwi Islands and Warruwi from Friday, extending to the coast and nearby inland across the western Top End including Darwin on Saturday.
Safety advice
NTES advises people near and between Wadeye and Dundee Beach, should consider what action they will need to take if the cyclone threat increases.
