Gujarat is preparing itself as Cyclone Tauktae hits during night.
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- Tauktae made landfall around 8.30 pm on Monday as an ‘amazingly extreme cyclonic tempest,’ said IMD.
- Climate watchers noticed that this sort of amazing tornado hasn’t hit the Gujarat coast in quite a while.
Tauktae made landfall around 8.30 pm on Monday as an ‘amazingly extreme cyclonic tempest’, said India Meteorological Department (IMD) authorities.
It moved north-westwards and crossed the Gujarat coast among Porbandar and Mahuva (in Bhavnagar area), east of Diu, with a most extreme breeze speed of up to 185 km/hr.
Sunitha Devi who studies cyclones at IMD:
The speed at the middle, or ‘eye’ of the cyclone, was up to 190 km/hr. “We could say that its force is verging on ‘the very serious cyclonic tempest’, and it coordinates with the conjectures we had made,” said Sunitha Devi, who considers tornadoes at IMD.
She said that the Met division had anticipated that Tauktae would be a ‘serious tornado’ since a low-pressure territory had shaped over the Arabian Sea. “Earlier today, it escalated into a very serious cyclonic tempest; however, it debilitated hardly during landfall,” she added.
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IMD stated in its bulletin:
Storm twists with speeds up to 90 km/hr blew along the south Gujarat, Daman and Diu coasts when the typhoon hit land. Diu detailed breeze speed of 110 km/hr.
In any case, speeds will probably go up to 185 km/hr off the Gujarat coast and places like Amreli, Bhavnagar, Junagadh and Gir Somnath areas. In Bharuch, Anand, south Ahmedabad, and Botad, wind speed will be up to 165 km/hr, IMD said in its notice.
Tidal waves of up to 4 metres height:
Tidal waves of up to 4 metres height will hit Anand, Amreli, Gir Somnath, Diu and Bhavnagar, while waves as high as 3 meters will immerse zones Bharuch southern pieces of Ahmedabad.
Vineet Kumar, a cyclone researcher at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, stated:
Climate watchers noticed that this sort of amazing tornado hasn’t hit the Gujarat coast in quite a while. “Passing by IMD’s tornado e-Atlas, interestingly following 1976, and just the second time since 1900, a typhoon that framed in May will hit the Gujarat coast with wind speeds more noteworthy than 35 bunches (65 km/hr),” said Vineet Kumar, a twister scientist at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology.
Further, Vineet Kumar tweeted:
He additionally tweeted that Tauktae, with a breeze speed of 120 bunches (222 km/hr), is the most grounded pre-storm Arabian Sea tornado after 2010 and the third most extraordinary pre-rainstorm Arabian Sea twister in the satellite period (1982 onwards) passing by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center situated at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
As O P Sreejith tweeted:
O P Sreejith, researcher and head of Climate Monitoring and Prediction Group of IMD Pune, noticed that the 1998 Gujarat twister that had hit Kandla was of comparative power.
“The fundamental justification Tauktae’s abrupt strengthening is high surface temperatures in the Arabian Sea,” he added.
