Overall Green Tropical Cyclone for TWENTYFOUR-26
Off-shore

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1001260
Name TWENTYFOUR-26
From - To 04 Mar - 05 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 0.7 m 552 mm 0.5
GFS 97 km/h 0.8 m 538 mm 0.5
ECMWF 72 km/h 0.7 m 835 mm 0.5
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Australia - Tropical storm TWENTYFOUR (ECHO 09 Mar 2026)Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:11

  • A new tropical storm named TWENTYFOUR formed over the northern Coral Sea, south of Papua New Guinea, on 27 February and started moving south-west toward north-eastern Queensland (north-eastern Australia) as a tropical depression. On 4 March at 0.00 UTC, its centre was located offshore approximately 610 km north-east of the town of Port Douglas and the city of Cairns (coastal north-eastern Queensland), with maximum sustained winds of 65 km/h (tropical storm).
  • On the forecast track, TWENTYFOUR is expected to make landfall over the area of Palm Cove (a suburb of the city of Cairns) on 5 March in the evening (UTC), with maximum sustained winds up to 83 km/h. After that it is forecast to continue moving south-west inland over northern Queensland on 6-7 March, further weakening into a tropical depression.
  • Over the next 96 hours, heavy rainfall is forecast over northern, north-eastern and central-eastern Queensland. The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has issued a watch zone over the Port Douglas and Cairns area.
Australia - Tropical storm activity, update (ECHO 11 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.
Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Green notification for tropical cyclone TWENTYFOUR-26. Population affe.. 3/4/2026 6:17:00 PM.

Australia - Tropical storm TWENTYFOUR (ECHO 04 Mar 2026) Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:11 A new tropical storm named TWENTYFOUR formed over the northern Coral Sea, south of Papua New Guinea, on 27 February and started moving south-west toward north-e
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