CYCLONE TITLY UPGRADED TO 'VERY SEVERE STORM'

CYCLONE TITLY UPGRADED TO 'VERY SEVERE STORM'

General

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1. Cyclone Titli has intensified into a cyclonic storm and has started showing its presence in the coastal areas of Odisha. The Metrological Office on Wednesday upgraded cyclone Titli to a ‘very severe cyclonic storm’ and warned that the wind speed may go up to 145 km per hr. The weather office added the landfall was in Odisha and adjoining north Andhra Pradesh coasts between Gopalpur and Kalingapatnam. 

Present Condition

2. A powerful cyclone has swept into eastern India, leaving at least eight people dead and destroying hundreds of homes. Cyclone Titli tore into coastal areas of Orissa and Andhra Pradesh states with winds of up to 150km/h (93mph). About 300,000 people have been evacuated from low-lying districts in Orissa. Authorities say roads are blocked and power supplies have been lost in many areas. Approx 6,000 to 7,000 elec poles may have been uprooted. Around 400,000 to 500,000 people are now without elec. The eight reported deaths were all in Andhra Pradesh. Education officials in Orissa said schools and colleges across the state would be closed for the rest of the week. Those evacuated were accommodated in more than 1,100 cyclone shelters, state officials added. TV footage from the affected areas showed huge waves crashing on to beaches and trees and power lines being toppled. India's eastern coast and Bangladesh are routinely hit by cyclonic storms.

Cyclone Categories (Cat)

3. Cyclones are cat as appended below:

Cat 1

A. Wind and gales of 90-125 kph, negligible house damage, some damage to trees and crops.

Cat 2

B. Destructive winds of 125-164 kph. Minor house damage, significant damage to trees, crops and vehicles, risk of power failure.

Cat 3

C. Very destructive winds of 165-224 kph. Some roof and structural damage, some caravans destroyed, power failure likely.

Cat 4

D. Very destructive winds of 225-279 kph. Significant roofing loss and structural damage, vehicles blown away, widespread power failures.

Cat 5

E. Very destructive winds gusts of more than 280 kph. Extremely dangerous with widespread destruction.

Cyclone Season 

4. The country’s cyclone season runs from Apr to Dec with severe storms often causing death tolls, evacuations of tens of thousands of people from low lying villages and wide damage to crops and property.

Tropical Cyclones

5. Tropical cyclones are named as follows:

A. Tropical cyclones are named to provide easy communication between forecasters and the general public regarding forecasts, watches, and warnings.

B. The first use of a proper name for a tropical cyclone was by an Australian forecaster early in the 20th century. He gave tropical cyclone names after political figures he disliked.

C. During World War II, tropical cyclones were informally given women’s names by US Army Air Corp and Navy meteorologists (after their girlfriends or wives) who were monitoring and forecasting tropical cyclones over the Pacific.

D. From 1950 to 1952, tropical cyclones of the North Atlantic Ocean were identified by the phonetic alphabet (Able-Baker-Charlie-etc.), but in 1953 the US Weather Bureau switched to women’s names. In 1979, the World Meteorological Organization and the US National Weather Service (NWS) switched to a list of names that also included men’s names.

E. The Northeast Pacific basin tropical cyclones were named using women’s names starting in 1959 for storms near Hawaii and in 1960 for the remainder of the Northeast Pacific basin. In 1978, both men’s and women’s names were utilized.

F. The Northwest Pacific basin tropical cyclones were given women’s names officially starting in 1945 and men’s names were also included beginning in 1979. Beginning on 1 January 2000, tropical cyclones in the Northwest Pacific basin are being named from a new and very different list of names.

G. The Southwest Indian Ocean tropical cyclones were first named during the 1960/1961 season.

H. The Australian and South Pacific region (east of 90E, south of the equator) started giving women’s names to the storms in 1964 and both men’s and women’s names in 1974/1975.

I. The North Indian Ocean region tropical cyclones are being named since October 2004.

Nomenclature

6. Storms are named as follows:

A. Atlantic and Pacific storm names are reused every six years, but are retired “if a storm is so deadly or costly that the future use of the name would be insensitive or confusing,” according to forecasters at the US National Hurricane Center in Miami.

B. Hurricane Sandy was the 77th name to be retired from the Atlantic list since 1954. It will be replaced with “Sara” beginning in 2018, when the list from 2012 is repeated. Hurricane Sandy was the deadliest and most destructive hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season that hit the US last year.

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