ADVICES
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) issues the following Tropical Cyclone advice:
Tropical Cyclone Watch: when gales are expected within 48 hours.
Tropical Cyclone Warning: when gales are expected within 24 hours.
These advices will also contain the Community Alerts issued by the State
Emergency Services.
ALERTS
DFES and the State Emergency Service (SES) issue a series of alerts based
on the information received by the Bureau of Meteorology to warn our
community of the approach of a cyclone.
The State Emergency Services issues Alert Stages in terms of colour. The
alert system uses the three colours of Blue, Yellow & Red.
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