Tropical Cyclone Lincoln crossing the Northern Territory
The cyclone is expected to cross the Northern Territory at a Category 1 status.
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00:00 A tropical cyclone has been named in the Gulf of Carpentaria this afternoon.
00:04 It is a Category 1 system, tropical cyclone Lincoln, and over the next 6 to 12 hours it's
00:10 going to make its way onshore onto the Northern Territory and it will eventually lose tropical
00:16 cyclone status.
00:17 If we zoom in to the north of the country, this is the Gulf here between North Queensland
00:22 and the NT, we can see a lot of moisture, a lot of cloud in the water vapour satellite
00:25 imagery and we can see a bit of circulation as well which is spinning around the Category
00:30 1 tropical cyclone which is in the south western Gulf.
00:34 It's only going to be a short lived cyclone though, later on Friday afternoon around 4
00:39 or 5 o'clock Northern Territory time, Central Standard Time, we're expecting this tropical
00:44 cyclone to cross over the coastline and start to make its way onto land.
00:48 Once it does get onto the land it is going to pretty quickly become a tropical low and
00:54 then through the course of the weekend this tropical low is going to work on a westward
00:58 trajectory across the Northern Territory bringing some areas of quite heavy rain through these
01:02 central places.
01:03 We'll talk more about rain in a second but firstly a look at the tropical cyclone warning
01:07 showing areas likely to see gale force winds during this afternoon's crossing.
01:12 The warning zone is this orange area here, we can zoom in a touch further and see it
01:16 covers some parts of far northwest Queensland, here from Mornington Island up to the border
01:21 which is this straight line here and into the Northern Territory where the tropical
01:25 cyclone warning extends up to Bingbong and that includes Borrolula.
01:29 Gale force winds are expected here through Friday afternoon and evening and even more
01:34 broadly we have a severe weather warning covering a larger area of northwest Queensland and
01:39 northeast Northern Territory throughout this yellow region.
01:43 Later on Friday and potentially early on Saturday afternoon we could see damaging wind gusts
01:47 and heavy to locally intense rainfall.
01:51 Speaking of rain, let's track the path through the middle of the Northern Territory over
01:54 the next couple of days, Saturday, Sunday, it's going to move westwards out towards that
01:59 western border with WA and over the course of the weekend quite significant rainfall
02:04 expected and you'll see that the heaviest rain is on the southern flank of the moving
02:09 tropical cyclone or tropical low, meaning the heaviest rain likely to go between Tennant
02:14 Creek and Elliott where we could see daily rainfall totals of 50 to 100 mm as the widespread
02:20 values in isolated areas getting upwards of 150 or possibly even 200 mm over a 24 hour
02:26 period through the central parts of the NT and some northern parts of Queensland as well.
02:32 Because of all this incoming rainfall there is a broad array of flood watches, all the
02:36 rivers through these purple areas could see a flood response as those river levels do
02:41 rise with the incoming rainfall.
02:44 Now of particular note, some of these areas in north west Queensland are still experiencing
02:48 flooding from the exceptionally heavy rain over the past couple of weeks associated with
02:52 ex-tropical cyclone Kerala.
02:54 Flood waters are still easing through some of these places but with the further incoming
02:58 rainfall, renewed rises are possible.
03:00 This could be of particular concern around Birktown and Domergy where many roads are
03:04 shut and some communities are still isolated.
03:08 So stay up to date throughout the course of Friday and the weekend.
03:11 You can find the latest weather and warnings at the Bureau website and app, and as always,
03:15 through severe weather, do listen to all advice from local emergency management.
03:19 Stay safe and thanks for watching.
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