Cyclonic tornado ‘Dana’, created over east-central Bay of Bengal on Wednesday, is readied to bring hefty rains in a number of southerly West Bengal areas, consisting of Kolkata, the IMD stated. Eastern and South Eastern trains terminated a lot of trains on October 24 and 25, because the cyclone. The tornado is most likely to escalate additionally right into an extreme whirlwind tornado over northwest Bay of Bengal and make landfall in between Bhitarkanika National Park and Dhamra port in Odisha very early Friday with wind rates of as much as 120 kmph, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) stated. Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi stated greater than 30% of the targeted 10 lakh individuals have actually been left to refuges by Wednesday night because the cyclone. Stay tuned to DH to track the most recent updates of Cyclone Dana.
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07:53 24 Oct 2024
Strong winds and rains experienced in Bhadrak’s Dhamra
07:52 24 Oct 2024
Cyclone Dana is anticipated to make landfall over the Odisha-West Bengal shore, in between October 24-25
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Cyclone Dana: 3 lakh individuals left in Odisha by Wednesday night
Rough sea saw at Kendrapara shore in Odisha in advance of Cyclone Dana’s landfall
‘Dana’ is likely to relocate northwestwards and go across north Odisha and West Bengal coastlines in between Puri and Sagar Island near to Bhitarkanika and Dhamara (Odisha) from mid-night of 24th to the early morning of 25th October as an extreme Cyclonic Storm with a wind rate of 100-110 kmph gusting 120 kmph
The serious whirlwind tornado “DANA” (obvious as Dana) over main & & adjacent northwest Bay of Bengal relocated north-northwestwards with a rate of 12 kmph throughout the previous 6 hours, and lay centred at 0530 humans resources IST these days, the 24th of October, over northwest & & adjacent main Bay of Bengal, near latitude 18.5 ° N and longitude 88.2 ° E, regarding 260 kilometres southeast of Paradip (Odisha), 290 kilometres south-southeast of Dhamara (Odisha) and 350 kilometres south of Sagar Island (West Bengal).
Bengal guv terminates all his programs, to check tasks of the Cyclone Dana from the Control Room in Raj Bhavan
Light rains in West Bengal’s Digha in advance of the cyclone’s landfall.
As per IMD, the tornado is most likely to escalate right into an extreme whirlwind tornado over northwest Bay of Bengal and make landfall in between Bhitarkanika National Park and Dhamra port in Odisha very early Friday with wind rates of as much as 120 kmph.
Strong winds and rains experienced in Bhadrak’s Dhamra
Published 23 October 2024, 02:55 IST
