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Issued at 1:35 pm CST on Saturday 22 November 2025
Severe Tropical Cyclone Fina, Category 3, to pass just north of Darwin this evening. Darwin to experience rapid increase in winds later this afternoon and evening.
Warning zone
The Tiwi Islands and Cape Don to Wadeye. This includes Darwin, Cobourg Peninsula, Pirlangimpi, Milikapiti, Wurrumiyanga and Wadeye.
Watch zone
From Wadeye (NT) to Troughton Island (WA) including Kalumburu (WA)
Intensity
Category 3, sustained winds near the centre of 140 kilometres per hour with wind gusts to 195 kilometres per hour.
Location
within 20 kilometres of 11.9 degrees South 131.2 degrees East, estimated to be 65 kilometres north northeast of Darwin and 60 kilometres east southeast of Wurrumiyanga.
Movement is west southwest at 9 kilometres per hour.
Darwin radar shows Fina close to the southeast coast of Melville Island. Fina is expected to continue moving west southwest to pass north of Darwin this evening.
After passing Darwin, Fina is forecast to maintain severe tropical cyclone intensity on Sunday and into Monday as it moves through the southern Timor Sea, and then start weakening during Monday or Tuesday near the Kimberley coast.
Hazards
VERY DESTRUCTIVE WIND GUSTS to 185 km/h are likely along the southeastern coast of Tiwi Islands moving west during the day, with a chance of reaching Wurrumiyanga this evening.
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