Severe Weather Warning for Damaging Winds and Surf on Lord Howe Island
This alert is no longer in effect.
BOM issued it on May 20, 2026, 3 months ago. Warnings of this kind stay in effect for hours to a few days, so this page is a historical record of what was issued, not a current warning. For conditions where you are right now, check weather.gov (US), weather.gc.ca (Canada), the Met Office (UK), or the Bureau of Meteorology (Australia).
Areazine synthesizes this BoM weather warning directly from BOM's official public data feed. See our methodology for full source attribution and refresh cadence.
BOM has issued a high-severity severe weather warning for damaging winds and damaging surf affecting Lord Howe Island from Thursday through Saturday.
Read this weather record in 30 seconds
- Record type
- Severe Weather Warning
- Affected area
- Lord Howe Island, NSW
- Issued
- May 20, 2026
- Issuing authority
- BOM
The warning type, named area, and issue time define this record. Confirm all three against the original agency notice before treating it as current.
Record status: historical. It was issued 3 months ago; use the issuing agency's live warning service for current conditions in Lord Howe Island, NSW.
Alert Details
BOM has issued Severe Weather Warning IDN28504 for damaging winds and damaging surf on Lord Howe Island. The warning was issued at 3:52 pm LHST on Wednesday 20 May 2026 and is classified as high severity.
Affected Areas
Lord Howe Island, New South Wales.
What You Should Do
- Stay indoors away from windows and keep children indoors.
- Stay at least 8 metres clear of any fallen power lines.
- Stay out of the water and stay well away from surf-exposed areas.
- Check your property regularly for erosion or inundation by sea water, and if necessary raise goods and electrical items. For emergency help, contact Lord Howe Island Police on (02) 6563 2199.
Expected Conditions
Gale force winds exceeding 65 km/h with peak gusts reaching 90 km/h are expected from Thursday afternoon. Damaging surf conditions with waves exceeding 5 metres are likely, particularly affecting south-facing beaches and causing significant beach erosion.
Timeline
Winds will develop from Thursday afternoon, ease below warning thresholds early Friday morning, redevelop Friday afternoon, and ease from Saturday late morning. Damaging surf is expected from Thursday afternoon and will persist into the weekend.
Original source: BOM Official Notice ↗
Related Weather Warnings
All Weather Warnings →Nationwide notices with similar length or severity timing 8
Two Areazine-derived peer sets for this BoM weather warning: nearest notices by body length and by same severity near the same agency date. Peers come from other categories so they are not the same-feed Related list above.
Similar body length
Nearest notices by article body length (1,217 characters here).
Similar severity timing
Same severity (high) notices issued closest in time to May 20, 2026.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about this BoM weather warning.