10 years ago-1999 Orissa cyclone

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10 years ago-1999 Orissa cyclone

#1 Postby Crostorm » Thu Oct 29, 2009 7:25 am

The 1999 Orissa cyclone, also known as Cyclone 05B, and Paradip cyclone, was the deadliest Indian Ocean tropical cyclone since the 1991 Bangladesh cyclone, and deadliest Indian storm since 1971. The storm made landfall just weeks after a Category 4 storm hit the same general area.

A tropical depression formed over the Malay Peninsula on October 25. It moved to the northwest and became a tropical storm on October 26. It continued to strengthen into a cyclone on the 27th. On October 28, it became a severe cyclone with a peak of 160 mph (260 km/h) winds. It hit India the next day as a 155 mph (250 km/h) cyclone. It caused the deaths of over 10,000 people, and heavy to extreme damage in its path of destruction.

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Re: 10 years ago-1999 Orissa cyclone

#2 Postby bombarderoazul » Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:18 am

Do cyclones in the indian basin get their names retired?
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Re: 10 years ago-1999 Orissa cyclone

#3 Postby Ptarmigan » Thu Oct 29, 2009 11:52 am

Quite an impressive tropical cyclone. Cyclone 05B was a Category 5 storm. The Indian Ocean Basin may not be very active, but these tropical cyclones can kill. TC Nargis hit Burma and claimed at least 150,000 lives in 2008.
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Re: 10 years ago-1999 Orissa cyclone

#4 Postby Sanibel » Thu Oct 29, 2009 1:25 pm

I visited Orissa the year before. The terrain and infrastructure would definitely explain 10,000 deaths.
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Re: 10 years ago-1999 Orissa cyclone

#5 Postby Macrocane » Thu Oct 29, 2009 3:23 pm

I think that the infrastucture, poor acces to media and the heavy populated areas in the coast of north Indian Ocean are the factors that make the tropical cyclones of the area so deadly. IMD IMO it's not a very good RSMC, sometimes the unofficial agency JTWC makes a better job watching cyclones in the area. I hope all of those things will improve on a near future.
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#6 Postby Derek Ortt » Thu Oct 29, 2009 6:05 pm

you know the RSMC is not cutting it when I can make the same level of forecasts with very limited satellite and model data, and spend very little of my time actually on the forecasts

I do not have nearly the access to information in the Indian Ocean that i do for the Atlantic and EPAC (and I highly doubt I will ever be running MM5 for the Indian Ocean)
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Re: 10 years ago-1999 Orissa cyclone

#7 Postby Ad Novoxium » Fri Oct 30, 2009 4:18 pm

bombarderoazul wrote:Do cyclones in the indian basin get their names retired?

The North Indian Ocean basin has a names list where once a name is used, it's never used again. Alas, there's no need for name retirement. Often, some cyclones get unofficial names (the cyclone that killed 100,000+ in Bangladesh in 1991 is sometimes called "Gorky") and there's a case of a cyclone being named when no names lists existed (01A in 1983 is officially called "Aurora", despite the basin not having a names list).
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Re: 10 years ago-1999 Orissa cyclone

#8 Postby Sanibel » Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:25 am

No wonder it was deadly. A category 5 that sat and spun at landfall.
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Re: 10 years ago-1999 Orissa cyclone

#9 Postby Iune » Sun Nov 08, 2009 9:34 am

Cyclones in the Northern Indian Ocean were named starting in September 2004. The names are used similarly to the Central Pacific, Australian Region, and the South Pacific. They are used once and never used again.
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