 On 24 March, TCWC Perth started issuing tropical cyclone advisories on a developing tropical low that had moved off land into waters off the Kimberley coast.It gained sizeable organisation, and the JTWC issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert early on 25 March.Several hours later, it was named Tropical Cyclone Kara, with scatterometer readings of 40 knots to the south of the system.