Just the latest on TC Fina for Friday .

Tropical Cyclone Fina is slowly moving southwest, with impacts for the Northern Territory from early this morning.

Area affected
Warning zone
The Tiwi Islands, and Cape Hotham to Warruwi. This includes Cobourg Peninsula, Minjilang and Gunbalanya, and also Pirlangimpi, Milikapiti and Wurrumiyanga about the Tiwi Islands.

Watch zone
Daly River Mouth to Cape Hotham, including Dundee Beach and Darwin.

Cancelled zone
Near Maningrida.

At 3:30 am Australian Central Standard Time
At 3:30 am ACST

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, 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.