Cyclone Fina is expected to pass just north of Darwin, bringing heavy rain and gale-force winds. Photo: HANDOUT/BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY

Top End residents face a night of damaging gale-force winds and heavy downpours as tropical cyclone Fina sweeps past.

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Residents of Darwin and surrounding regions have been urged not to panic but to stay in their homes or emergency shelters until given the all-clear.

The strengthened category-three system brought destructive wind gusts to remote Tiwi Islands communities after passing over the Cobourg Peninsula overnight into the Van Diemen Gulf.

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