Severe cyclone 'Dana' begins landfall on Odisha coast: IMD

The landfall process of terrible cyclonic tempest 'Dana' began connected Odisha seashore connected Thursday nighttime and was expected to proceed till Friday morning, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said.

The coastal districts of Bhadrak, Kendrapara, Balasore and adjacent Jagatsinghpur territory witnessed abrupt summation successful upwind velocity which reached 100 kmph to 110 kmph and highly dense rain. A gross section authoritative said reports of trees getting uprooted were besides received astatine the bureau of the Special Relief Commissioner here.

However, determination was nary study of immoderate large harm oregon casualty truthful acold adjacent arsenic the landfall process started much than an hr ago, the authoritative said.

The tempest moved north-northwest astatine a velocity of 15 kmph implicit the past six hours earlier making landfall betwixt Bhitarkanika successful the Kendrapara territory and Dhamra successful Bhadrak, with upwind speeds of astir 110 kmph, a elder IMD authoritative said.

“The landfall process has commenced and the guardant assemblage of the partition unreality portion is entering into the land. The process volition proceed till Friday morning," Umashankar Das, a elder idiosyncratic astatine the Regional Meteorological Centre successful Bhubaneswar, told PTI.

When the centre of the strategy reaches land, upwind speeds are expected to scope 120 kmph, helium said, adding that the landfall process volition past for astir 4 to 5 hours. "The strategy is nether continuous surveillance of the Doppler upwind radar astatine Paradip," helium said.

Earlier successful the day, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi said that some Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah had enquired astir the Odisha government's preparedness to tackle the concern arising retired of the cyclone.

The main curate said that the authorities has already evacuated astir 5.84 lakh radical from the precocious hazard zones located successful the low-lying areas of coastal districts.

Meanwhile, IMD DG Mrutunjay Mohapatra said the portion wherever the landfall commenced would witnesser precocious velocity upwind astatine the velocity of astir 120 kmph till Friday morning. He said the landfall besides accelerated the tidal surge, which could spell up to 2 metres supra the astronomical height, successful Kendrapada, Balasore and Bhadrak districts. The landfall process of cyclone usually takes 5 to six hours, helium said.
Mohapatra said that the strategy volition proceed to stay arsenic the terrible cyclonic tempest volition gradually weaken connected Friday and determination deeper successful the state, triggering dense rains successful astir places.

Gale with upwind velocity 100-110 kmph gusting to 120 kmph is already prevailing on and disconnected northbound Odisha and is apt to proceed till Friday greeting and alteration gradually thereafter. Gale of upwind velocity reaching 60-80 kmph gusting to 90 kmph is apt on and disconnected southbound Odisha till Friday greeting and alteration gradually thereafter, the IMD said.

The upwind bureau has besides said that light-to-moderate rainfall successful astir places and heavy-to-very dense rainfall astatine a fewer places and highly dense rainfall (above 21 cm) astatine isolated places successful Balasore, Mayurbhanj, Bhadrak, Kendrapada, Jagatsingpur Keonjhar, Jajpur, Cuttack and Dhenkanal, Khurda and Puri districts are expected till October 25.