Summary
Tropical Cyclone Alfred was a category 1 system in the Coral Sea that moved east of the region.
The low which was to become tropical cyclone Alfred was first identified early on 3 March 1986 530 km east-northeast of Cairns. The low moved very slowly to the south at first before moving to the east-southeast from 4 March. The system developed on 6 March reaching tropical cyclone intensity at 18 UTC 6 March.
On 7 March Alfred accelerated to the east southeast and moved east of 160E out of the Australin region at 1200 UTC that day at category 1 intensity.
Alfred caused no damage. The highest reported wind was 83 km/h at 0600 UTC 5 March estimated by a ship 330 km from the centre.
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