Source: Bureau of Meteorology

For people in Adelaide Metropolitan, Mount Lofty Ranges, Lower Eyre Peninsula, Eastern Eyre Peninsula, Yorke Peninsula, Flinders, Mid North, Kangaroo Island, Riverland, Murraylands, Upper South East, Lower South East and parts of West Coast, North East Pastoral and North West Pastoral districts.

Issued at 10:50 am Thursday, 28 August 2025.

STRONG COLD FRONT TO BRING DAMAGING, LOCALLY DESTRUCTIVE WINDS ON FRIDAY

Weather Situation: A strong cold front is developing over the Southern Ocean, and is expected to cross the state on Friday morning bringing a risk of damaging to locally destructive winds to southern parts of the state. A gusty west to southwesterly airstream is then expected to develop behind the front, sustaining the risk of damaging winds into the evening.

DAMAGING WINDS averaging 60 to 70 km/h with gusts of around 100 km/h are forecast in the warning area from early Friday morning. LOCALLY DESTRUCTIVE WINDS WITH PEAK GUSTS OF AROUND 130 KM/H are also possible during the early morning for areas including Adelaide, the Mount Lofty Ranges, the Mid North, Yorke Peninsula, Kangaroo Island, as well as coastal areas of the Upper and Lower South East. These higher wind gusts will be associated with the strongest showers and thunderstorms in isolated locations.

DAMAGING WINDS averaging 60 to 70 km/h with peak gusts of around 100 km/h are then forecast to continue throughout the day in a westerly and then southwesterly airstream behind the front, mostly associated with showers and thunderstorms. Peak gusts may reach 110 km/h about the Lower South East during the afternoon and evening.

Conditions are expected to gradually ease from the west during the evening, although may continue into the late evening over the Lower South East.

Locations which may be affected include Adelaide, Port Lincoln, Whyalla, Renmark, Mount Gambier and Ceduna.

The State Emergency Service advises that people should:
* Keep clear of fallen power lines;
* Move vehicles under cover or away from trees;
* Secure or put away loose items around your property.
* Stay indoors, away from windows, while conditions are severe.