Tropical Cyclone Damien brought wind and rain to Western Australia on Saturday.\u00a0 At 10:00 a.m. EST on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Damien was located at latitude 21.7\u00b0S and longitude 117.0\u00b0E which put it about 60 miles (100 km) south-southeast of Karratha, Australia.\u00a0 Damien was moving toward the south-southeast at 10 m.p.h. (16 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 100 m.p.h. (160 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 120 m.p.h. (195 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 962 mb.<\/p>\n
A Warning was in effect for the portion of the coast of Western Australia from Whim Creek to Mardie including Karratha and Dampier.\u00a0 Flood Warnings were in effect for the Fortescue River and the Coastal Pilbara Rivers.\u00a0 A Flood Watch was in effect for the Pilbara and Gascoyne District.\u00a0 An Initial Flood Warning was issued for the Ashburton River.<\/p>\n
A weather station at Karratha reported a sustained wind speed of 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h or 78 kt) when the core of Tropical Cyclone Damien passed over it.\u00a0 The station also reported a wind gust of 114 m.p.h. (183 km\/h or 99 kt).\u00a0 The weather station at Karratha measured 6.14 inches (156 mm) of rain during the passage of Damien.\u00a0 The minimum pressure was 957 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Damien will move around the western end of a high pressure system over Australia.\u00a0 The high will steer Damien toward the south-southeast during the next several days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone Damien could approach Tom Price and Paraburdoo in about 12 hours.\u00a0 Damien will weaken slowly as it moves farther inland.\u00a0 It will continue to produce strong winds capable of causing damage during the next 12 to 24 hours\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Damien could also drop locally heavy rain over parts of Western Australia during the next several days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Damien brought wind and rain to Western Australia on Saturday.\u00a0 At 10:00 a.m. EST on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Damien was located at latitude 21.7\u00b0S and longitude 117.0\u00b0E which put it about 60 miles (100 km) south-southeast of Karratha, Australia.\u00a0 Damien was moving toward the south-southeast at 10 m.p.h. (16 km\/h).\u00a0 […]<\/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":[973,1931,1928,1467,1934,1938,1935,974,1937,1930,94,1936],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9217"}],"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=9217"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9220,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9217\/revisions\/9220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}