{"id":539008,"date":"2026-01-24T08:09:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T08:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/539008\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T08:09:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T08:09:18","slug":"tropical-cyclone-luana-crosses-western-australias-kimberley-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/539008\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Cyclone Luana crosses Western Australia’s Kimberley coast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tropical Cyclone Luana has crossed Western Australia’s Kimberley coast, with the region’s residents urged to brace for heavy rain, gale-force winds and potential flooding.<\/p>\n

The system made landfall as a category two system along the Dampier Peninsula, north of Broome, and around 2,000km north of Perth, just after 2pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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Tropical Cyclone Luana has made landfall after 2pm on Saturday. (Supplied: Bureau of Meteorology)<\/p>\n

An emergency warning remains in place for residents of remote communities along the peninsula, with wind gusts of up to 125km\/h recorded at the edge of the system.<\/p>\n

\"Derby<\/p>\n

Staff from Derby State Emergency Service prepare for the arrival of Tropical Cyclone Luana. (ABC Kimberley: Dunja Karagic)<\/p>\n

Flood warnings have also been issued, with Luana expected to bring 150\u2013200mm of rain across the West Kimberley over the next 24\u201348 hours.<\/p>\n

Bureau of Meteorology duty forecaster Jessica Lingard said gusts of 91km\/h were recorded at Koolan Island.<\/p>\n

She said Luana was funnelling water down King Sound and towards Derby.<\/p>\n

\"Residents<\/p>\n

Stormy weather has begun in Derby ahead of Cyclone Luana’s arrival. (ABC Kimberley: Dunja Karagic)<\/p>\n

Ms Lingard said a king tide was expected about 5:30pm today, which could reach as high as 11 metres, making coastal inundation likely.<\/p>\n

More than 70mm of rain has also fallen in parts of the Dampier Peninsula.<\/p>\n

While communities along the peninsula are sheltering in place, residents in Derby, 200km east of Broome, have been making final preparations.<\/p>\n

Rusty’s IGA Manager Tameka Plummer said a steady stream of people had been coming through the doors to secure supplies.<\/p>\n

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Sandbags piled up in Derby as residents prepare for the arrival of Tropical Cyclone Luana. (ABC Kimberley: Dunja Karagic)<\/p>\n

“As soon as we opened the door, there were people out the front waiting to get all the last-minute necessities,” she said.<\/p>\n

“Bread, eggs, toilet paper; we’ve got pallets of that.”<\/p>\n

Despite a casual response from some locals, she said the Shire of Derby-West Kimberley’s decision to open the evacuation centre and provide sandbags around town had reinforced the seriousness of the situation.<\/p>\n

Visit\u00a0Emergency WA<\/a>,\u00a0call DFES on 133 337, download the Emergency WA app, or listen to ABC Kimberley<\/a> to stay up to date.<\/p>\n

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The Djarindjin community has already had a significant amount of rain as Tropical Cyclone Luana made landfall. (Supplied)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tropical Cyclone Luana has crossed Western Australia’s Kimberley coast, with the region’s residents urged to brace for heavy…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":539009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,238100,8580,238101,50,8631,238099,187599,58777,8632,58776],"class_list":{"0":"post-539008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-cyclone-luana","10":"tag-flooding","11":"tag-kimberley-cyclone","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-perth-news","14":"tag-tc-luana","15":"tag-tropical-cyclone","16":"tag-wa-cyclone","17":"tag-wa-news","18":"tag-wa-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115949061536941592","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}