Details of Severe Tropical Cyclone Zelia 18U at 5:00 pm AWST:
Intensity: Category 3, sustained winds near the centre of 150 kilometres per hour with wind gusts to 205 kilometres per hour.
Location: within 20 kilometres of 20.7 degrees South 119.3 degrees East, estimated to be 85 kilometres east southeast of Port Hedland and 70 kilometres northwest of Marble Bar.
Movement: south southeast at 19 kilometres per hour.
Severe Tropical Cyclone Zelia made landfall at 12:30pm near De Grey River mouth, northeast of Port Hedland at category 4 intensity. Zelia will now take a general southerly track over land and weaken. Intense rainfall is expected near and to the east of the centre of the cyclone.
