Overall Green Tropical Cyclone for TWENTYSIX-26 Off-shore from 06 Mar 2026 00:00 UTC to 08 Mar 2026 00:00 UTC

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Overall Green Tropical Cyclone for TWENTYSIX-26

Off-shore

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone TWENTYSIX-26 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID	TC 1001262
Name	TWENTYSIX-26
From - To	06 Mar - 08 Mar
Exposed countries	Off-shore
Exposed population	No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	65 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge	n.a.
Vulnerability	--

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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
GDACS JTWC	65 km/h	n.a.	n.a.	0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF	101 km/h	5 m	379 mm	0.5
GFS	94 km/h	5 m	410 mm	0.5
ECMWF	65 km/h	5 m	408 mm	0.5

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Australia - Tropical storm activity, update (ECHO 09 Mar 2026)Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:19

Three different tropical storms formed offshore near the coast of north-eastern and north-western Australia between 4 and 6 March, causing heavy rainfall inland and triggering floods and river overflows that resulted in population evacuations.
Tropical storm TWENTYFOUR, formed in the northern Coral Sea, affected the Cape York Peninsula (far northern Queensland, north-eastern Australia). Tropical storms TWENTYFIVE and TWENTYSIX, formed in the eastern Indian Ocean, affected northern Western Australia and the neighbouring western Northern Territory.
Media report, as of 6 March, 21 evacuated people in the town of Katherine (Northern Territory) and some closed roads across the area. In addition, the media also reports some preventatively evacuated people across northern Queensland.
Over the next 96 hours, according to the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), more heavy rainfall is still forecast over northern and central-eastern Queensland, the far north of the Northern Territory and Western Australia.

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