Warren crossed the coast near Mornington Island early on 6 March 1995. The barometer at Mornington Island Mission (Gununa) dropped to 966 hPa when the centre of the cyclone was 20 km away. The radius of the eye was around 20 km and at 2am the wind went calm at Gununa. In the band of maximum winds the hand anemometer there went off the scale at 125 km/hr. Seawater at this time (low tide) was dead level with the top of the jetty (2.5 m above normal).

Two houses were badly damaged and another 32 had some damage. Many trees were uprooted and power lines were downed. A Cessna at the airport was blown over. Tides were 1.5 m above normal at Sweers Island. A 1.5 m surge was measured at Karumba. Karumba wave recording station recorded Hsig to 1.8m and Hmax to 3.5m. Westmoreland Station suffered minor roofing iron damage. Hells Gate suffered extensive flooding ($1.6million damage to roads).

The map at the top left displays the impact area (marked by the black line) with the red line illustrating the path of the eye of the cyclone.

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Cyclone Warren track and intensity (BOM)