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 75 kilometres per hour with wind gusts to 100 kilometres per hour.
Location
within 30 kilometres of 10.3 degrees South 133.1 degrees East, estimated to be 340 kilometres northeast of Darwin and 110 kilometres north northeast of Minjilang.
Movement: Slow moving.
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 with DAMAGING WIND GUSTS to 120 km/h may develop over the Cobourg Peninsula between Cape Don and Warruwi this morning. 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.
DESTRUCTIVE WIND GUSTS to 155km/h may develop between Cape Don and Warruwi on Friday as the system nears the coast, extending to the Tiwi Islands early Saturday and possibly to Darwin later 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.
Coastal residents on the Tiwi Islands, and between Cape Hotham and Warruwi are specifically warned of a DANGEROUS STORM TIDE as the cyclone centre crosses the coast during Friday and Saturday. Tides are likely to rise significantly above the normal high tide, with DAMAGING WAVES and DANGEROUS FLOODING.
Safety advice
NTES advises people near and between Daly River Mouth and Cape Hotham, including Darwin and Batchelor, should consider what action they will need to take if the cyclone threat increases.
