West Australians Hunker Down in Evacuation Centres as Tropical Cyclone Narelle Wreaks Havoc

'Screaming winds': severe cyclone pummels holiday town

A severe tropical cyclone has hammered a holiday town, ripping off roofs and flooding homes as it winds its way down Australia's west coast.

West Australians hunker down in evacuation centres as Tropical Cyclone Narelle wreaks havoc

The category 3 cyclone is currently over Coral Bay, and has brought down trees, lifted roofs off homes and reportedly the local evacuation centre, and sunk boats from the Pilbara down to the northern Gascoyne region.

‘The big one we’ve been expecting’: Group bunkers down

It has been a tense ordeal for 22 people waiting in a cyclone shelter just outside of Exmouth for almost 20 hours while Narelle batters their home town.

Cyclone Narelle sinks boats, cuts power as it hugs WA coast towards Carnarvon

The storm, which has already made landfall in Far North Queensland and the Northern Territory, is now impacting the WA coast.