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Satellite photographs received during the morning showed the low moving slowly southwest. The first Cyclone Alert was issued at 4pm.

Tropical low out of radar range

Tropical Cyclone Alert No 1 issued by the Darwin Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre at 4 pm CST 21/12/74.

A tropical low was centred 250 km NNE of Croker Island at 3 pm and there is a possibility of a tropical cyclone developing. Communities between Maningrida and Bathurst Island are alerted.

Ships in Arafura and Timor Seas please transmit three hourly weather and radar rain reports to Weather Darwin.