Community Threat

Warning Zone
Gales within 24 hours

Watch Zone
Gales from 24-48 hours

The forecast path shown above is the Bureau's best estimate of the cyclone's future movement and intensity. There is always some uncertainty associated with tropical cyclone forecasting and the grey zone indicates the range of likely tracks of the cyclone centre.

Due to the uncertainty in the future movement, the indicated winds will almost certainly extend to regions outside the rings on this map. The extent of the warning and watch zones reflects this.

This product is designed for land-based communities; mariners should read the coastal waters and high seas warnings.

Headline:

Tropical Cyclone Wallace is located over open waters well away from the WA coast and is not expected to impact the WA coast.

Areas affected:

Warning zone: None.

Watch zone: None.

Cancelled zones: None.

Details of Severe Tropical Cyclone Wallace at 2:00 am AWST:

Intensity: category 3, sustained winds near the centre of 120 kilometres per hour with wind gusts to 165 kilometres per hour.
Location: within 45 kilometres of 16.3 degrees South, 115.0 degrees East , 530 kilometres north northwest of Karratha and 590 kilometres north of Onslow .
Movement: west southwest at 17 kilometres per hour .

Tropical Cyclone Wallace will continue to track towards the west-southwest this morning then take a more westerly track during Tuesday over open waters, well north of the Pilbara coast. Wallace is forecast to gradually weaken throughout Tuesday and is likely to weaken below cyclone intensity during Wednesday or Thursday at the latest.

Hazards:

Tropical Cyclone Wallace is not expected to impact the WA coast.

Tropical Cyclone information is also available in MetEye

Next Issue

The next Forecast Track Map will be issued by 9:00 am AWST Tuesday