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Sri Lanka is an island nation in the Indian Ocean. The country is vulnerable to cyclones due to its position near the confluence of the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean. [citation needed]
In May 2004, seven of the eight members of the World Meteorological Organization panel on tropical cyclones for the North Indian Ocean met in Colombo, Sri Lanka to review the season. During the meeting, the panel announced the first list of tropical cyclone names to be used in the basin for the following season.
The storm organized into a Depression off southeast coast of Sri Lanka on November 29, causing damage to property and life in Sri Lanka while passing by. [2] Due to high atmospheric moisture and warmer oceanic surface temperature between Sri Lanka and Kanyakumari ( Cape Comorin ) in mainland India, Ockhi intensified into a cyclonic storm on ...
1978 Sri Lanka cyclone; 2000 Sri Lanka cyclone; 2003 Sri Lanka cyclone; 2016 Sri Lankan floods; B. Cyclone Burevi; C. Cyclones Mandous and ARB 03; F. Cyclone Fengal ...
2002–03 Australian region cyclone season; 2003–04 Australian region cyclone season; 2003 Pacific hurricane season; 2003 Pacific typhoon season; 2002–03 South Pacific cyclone season; 2003–04 South Pacific cyclone season; 2003 Sri Lanka cyclone; 2002–03 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season; 2003–04 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
The 2003 Sri Lanka cyclone was a moderately powerful tropical cyclone that produced the worst flooding in Sri Lanka in 56 years. The first storm of the 2003 North Indian Ocean cyclone season , it developed over the Bay of Bengal on May 10.
After weakening over Sri Lanka, Burevi exited into the Gulf of Mannar, early on December 3. [11] However, Burevi slowed down quickly as it became stuck in a col between two subtropical ridges on December 4; thus the system stalled just west of Sri Lanka while weakening back down to the equivalent of a tropical depression, due to increasing ...
The 2000 Sri Lanka cyclone (IMD designation: BOB 06 JTWC designation: 04B) was the strongest tropical cyclone to strike Sri Lanka since 1978. The fourth tropical storm and the second severe cyclonic storm of the 2000 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, it developed from an area of disturbed weather on December 25, 2000. It moved westward, and ...