Severe Weather Warning (Damaging Winds) L Eyre, Kangaroo Island & Mt Lofty R, West Coast, Yorke Peninsula & Lower South East districts
21 JULY 2025 23:00 CST
Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology
South Australia
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Severe Weather Warning
for Damaging Winds
for Lower Eyre Peninsula, Kangaroo Island and parts of Mount Lofty Ranges, West Coast, Yorke Peninsula and Lower South East districts.
Issued at 11:00 pm Monday, 21 July 2025.
Damaging winds continuing over southern coastal areas into Tuesday.
Weather Situation
A cold front is currently near the Eyre Peninsula, and is expected to move to the east of Adelaide after midnight. A vigorous west to southwesterly airstream is forecast to develop behind the front over southern coastal areas into Tuesday morning as an intensifying low pressure system passes to the south of Kangaroo Island overnight.
DAMAGING WINDS for the following areas:
Mount Lofty Ranges, West Coast, Lower Eyre Peninsula, Yorke Peninsula, Kangaroo Island and Lower South East
DAMAGING WEST TO SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS averaging 50 to 65 km/h with peak gusts of around 90 km/h are possible overnight over the West Coast, Lower Eyre Peninsula, Kangaroo Island, Fleurieu Peninsula, and southern parts of the Yorke Peninsula.
DAMAGING WINDS are forecast to spread to the Lower South East around Tuesday morning as they ease over areas further west, and are expected to finally ease below warning thresholds during Tuesday afternoon.
Locations which may be affected include Port Lincoln, Ceduna, Kingscote, Elliston, Streaky Bay and Cummins.
Severe weather is no longer occurring in the Eastern Eyre Peninsula, Flinders and North West Pastoral districts and the warning for these districts is CANCELLED.
Sustained winds of 69 km/h were recorded on Neptune Island around 10:30pm
The State Emergency Service advises that people should:
* Move vehicles under cover or away from trees;
* Secure or put away loose items around your property.
* Stay indoors, away from windows, while conditions are severe.
The next Severe Weather Warning will be issued by 5:00 am ACST Tuesday.
Warnings are also available through TV and Radio broadcasts, the Bureau's website at www.bom.gov.au or call 1300 659 210. The Bureau and State Emergency Service would appreciate warnings being broadcast regularly.
