A stronger Tropical Cyclone Kelvin made landfall on the coast of Western Australia near Anna Plains on Saturday night.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Kelvin was located at latitude 19.4\u00b0S and longitude 121.9\u00b0E which put it about 60 miles (95 km) east-northeast of Sandfire, Australia.\u00a0 Kelvin was moving toward the east-southeast at 8 m.p.h. (13 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 95 m.p.h. (155 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 975 mb.\u00a0 The Australian Bureau of Meteorology issued a Warning for the portion of the coast from Broome to Wallal Downs and the Warning extends inland to include Telfer.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Kelvin intensified very rapidly before it made landfall on the coast of Western Australia.\u00a0 Kelvin strengthened in a few hours from a minimal tropical storm to the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon.\u00a0 A small circular eye developed at the center of circulation.\u00a0 The eye was surrounded by a ring of strong thunderstorms and the strongest winds were occurring in the ring of storms.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the core of the circulation.\u00a0 Kelvin was a small tropical cyclone.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force only extended out about 60 miles (95 km) from the center of circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Kelvin intensified enough to be capable of causing wind damage, but locally heavy rain is the greater risk.\u00a0 The small size of Kelvin will limit the area of heavy rain, but there could be enough rain in some areas to create the potential for floods.\u00a0 The Australian Bureau of Meteorology issued Flood Warnings for the North Kimberly District, the West Kimberly District, and the Sandy Desert.\u00a0 Flood Watches were issued for the De Grey Rivers and the Salt Lake District Rivers.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Kelvin will weaken as it moves farther inland, but Kelvin will take longer to spin down because it strengthened so much before landfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A stronger Tropical Cyclone Kelvin made landfall on the coast of Western Australia near Anna Plains on Saturday night.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Kelvin was located at latitude 19.4\u00b0S and longitude 121.9\u00b0E which put it about 60 miles (95 km) east-northeast of Sandfire, Australia.\u00a0 Kelvin was moving toward […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,48,2],"tags":[639,78,960,640,959,94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5567,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5566\/revisions\/5567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}