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TOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCAST
TROPICAL CYCLONE ADVICE NUMBER 14
Issued at 1:46 pm EST on Wednesday 24 January 2024
Headline:
Tropical cyclone impacts likely to begin for coastal and island communities tonight and Thursday morning.

Areas Affected:
Warning Zone
Lucinda to Sarina, including Townsville, Mackay, Bowen and the Whitsunday Islands .

Watch Zone
Innisfail to Lucinda, and extending inland to Charters Towers .

Cancelled Zone
None.

Details of Tropical Low at 1:00 pm AEST:
Intensity: Tropical Low, sustained winds near the centre of 75 kilometres per hour with wind gusts to 100 kilometres per hour.

Location: within 45 kilometres of 17.2 degrees South 152.6 degrees East, estimated to be 660 kilometres east northeast of Townsville and 570 kilometres northeast of Mackay.

Movement: slow moving.

A tropical low (05U) is developing slowly in the central Coral Sea and is expected to become a tropical cyclone tonight as it tracks west southwest towards the Queensland coast. The system is likely to cross the Queensland coast Thursday night between Cardwell and Bowen as a Category 2 system.

In the longer term, the system is likely to track further inland as a tropical low, bringing heavy to intense rain to parts of the northern interior and western Queensland.