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Orissa Super cyclone 1999

  • 30/01/2005

This very-high-intensity cyclone (T-7 in the Dvorak Scale of T-1 to T-8) was rare in the northern Indian Ocean region. 10 days before the super-cyclone, a cyclone with a wind speed of 200 kilometre per hour (kms/hr) hit the Orissa coast. The India Meteorological Institute issued warnings of another

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