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24-hour rainfall totals

 * Cygnet Island: 164.0 mm (4-5 January)

Wind readings

 * Bedout Island: 74 km/h and gust to 91 km/h at 23:00 UTC on 7 January, sustained gales 19:30 UTC 7 January to 02:00 UTC 8 January
 * Broome Port: Gust to 102 km/h on 6 January
 * Browse Island: 69 km/h at 07:37 UTC on 6 January, gust to 89 km/h at 04:14 UTC on 6 January
 * Troughton Island: 67 km/h and gust to 82 km/h at 18:00 UTC on 6 January (probably in a thunderstorm in the northern convective rainband)
 * Rowley Shoals: 67 km/h and gust to 83 km/h at 23:30 UTC on 5 January
 * Adele Island: 65 km/h at 02:30 UTC on 6 January, gust to 87 km/h at 02:14 UTC on 5 January
 * Port Hedland Airport: 59 km/h and gust to 76 km/h at 05:30 UTC on 8 January
 * Broome Airport: 54 km/h at 07:30 UTC on 6 January, gust to 82 km/h at 14:00 UTC on 6 January
 * Derby: 52 km/h and gust to 83 km/h at at 02:50 UTC on 6 January
 * Newman Airport: 52 km/h and gust to 76 km/h at 01:35 UTC on 9 January

News reports

 * ABC News, regading preparations and impacts in Broome and the Dampier Peninsula
 * The West Australian, regarding preparations in and around Broome
 * Broome Port shut down
 * SBS/NITV, regarding Broome
 * QantasLink suffers runway excursion at Newman

Other sources

 * First mention of identifier 02U
 * JTWC TCFA
 * Initial flood warning for West Kimberley (contains rainfall totals)
 * Peak pressure of 986 hPa
 * TC outlook indicating Blake made landfall "late Tuesday night" (probably almost midnight, as 1:00 a.m. seems more likely) and weakened to a tropical low early Wednesday morning after making landfall
 * Ex-Blake still active on 9 January
 * Major flood warning for De Grey River catchment
 * Coongan River height at Marble Bar table
 * Possible dissipation date
 * Blake has degenerated into a trough