A tropical cyclone is expected to develop near Western Australia’s Pilbara coast this weekend, causing flooding and damaging winds.

The level-two system is bringing with it winds of up to 170km per hour, heavy rainfall and flash flooding as it tracks toward Exmouth.

Tropical cyclone Mitchell was gathering force off the WA coast late Saturday and is forecast to reach severe category three by the time it makes landfall.

The Bureau of Meteorology says Tropical Cyclone Mitchell has a high chance of forming into a category two system, bringing destructive winds and heavy rain to northern WA.

Tropical Cyclone Mitchell has carved a long, messy arc across Western Australia, peaking as a Category 3 system offshore before staggering inland as a weakening low that still packed enough punch to ...

Residents in an isolated agricultural hub are bracing for the arrival of a tropical cyclone that could flatten a banana crop which supplies an entire state.

Heavy rain, damaging winds and abnormally high tides are impacting Western Australia as Tropical Cyclone Mitchell edges ...

Track the path of Tropical Cyclone Mitchell and monitor wind speeds as the system approaches the Pilbara coast.

Tropical Cyclone Mitchell has strengthened to a category three storm as it nears the Western Australia coast, bringing with it damaging wind gusts of up to 185 km/h.

Tropical low off the Pilbara coast, likely to intensify into a cyclone Saturday morning and track parallel to the Pilbara coast over the weekend ...

Tropical Cyclone Mitchell is bearing down on Western Australia's coast, bringing heavy rain and destructive winds as it continues its descent and threatens to make landfall.

Residents have been issued a dire warning as Tropical Cyclone Mitchell smashes part of one state, with more destructive conditions forecast.