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The season was below average with two cyclones forming and one making landfall over India. The season includes one Super Cyclonic Storm which was the second consecutive season with this type of storm. Super Cyclonic Storm BOB 01 formed on 4 May 1990. It made landfall at the equivalent to a Category 3 tropical cyclone on Andhra Pradesh on May 9 ...
Two days later, early on 31 August, the IMD upgraded it into a depression, designated as BOB 03, off the coast of Andhra Pradesh. It made landfall that same day before weakening back to a low pressure inland. 27 deaths from rain related incidents were recorded in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. [34]
The season has no official bounds but cyclones tend to form between April and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northern Indian Ocean. There are two main seas in the North Indian Ocean—the Bay of Bengal to the east of the Indian subcontinent and the Arabian Sea to the ...
The deadliest tropical cyclone was the 1970 Bhola Cyclone, which caused over 500,000 fatalities in the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta region alone. It made landfall in the Tazumuddin Upazila in East Pakistan (now known as Bangladesh). [34] [35] The smallest tropical cyclone was Cyclone Ogni, which struck the Andhra Pradesh coast on October 30, 2008 ...
During the season, there were at least 1,577 deaths, while the systems caused over US$693 million in damages. The most significant system was the 1990 Andhra Pradesh cyclone, which was the most intense, damaging, and the deadliest system of the season.
Between 4:30 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. IST on October 11 (23:00–00:00 UTC on October 10–11), Titli made landfall near Palasa, Andhra Pradesh, at peak intensity. [citation needed] Titli killed at least 77 people in Odisha and left a couple of others missing, due to heavy flooding and landslides, [52] and caused another 8 deaths in Andhra Pradesh. [53]
The 1998 Andhra Pradesh cyclone was a weak but deadly tropical depression which impacted India, especially the state of Andhra Pradesh, in October 1998.The eight depression and seventh deep depression of the 1998 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, BOB 03 developed from a low-pressure area in the Bay of Bengal on October 13.
The season's strongest tropical cyclone was Cyclone Tauktae, with maximum wind speeds of 185 km/h (115 mph) and a minimum barometric pressure of 950 hPa (28.05 inHg). The scope of this article is limited to the Indian Ocean in the Northern Hemisphere , east of the Horn of Africa and west of the Malay Peninsula .