Tropical Cyclone Heidi is aimed for northwestern Australia, packing high winds and torrential rain.
Heidi will target the Pilbara coast with potentially damaging winds and flooding rain Wednesday and Wednesday night, local time. The likely area of landfall will be near Port Hedland and Karratha.
As of early Wednesday morning, local time, the center of T.C. Heidi was located over the Indian Ocean about 185 miles north of Port Hedland, Western Australia, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) said. Movement of the storm, having highest sustained winds of 45 mph, was towards the south at about 12 mph.
The BoM have posted a Tropical Cyclone Warning for the Pilbara coast from Sandfire Roadhouse to Dampier.
The BoM warning advised of winds to 100 km/h (about 60 mph) beginning early Wednesday, local time, in coastal areas. It also called for rainfall above 100 mm (4 inches) across the central and eastern Pilbara, as the region is known.
The storm will disrupt shipping and port activity through the Pilbara coast, which ships a heavy volume of iron ore to world markets.
Offshore oil and gas infrastructure could be adversely affected.
- AccuWeather.com
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