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The years before 1890 featured the pre-1890 North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons. Each season was an event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation. The North Indian tropical cyclone season has no bounds, but they tend to form between April and December, peaks in May and November. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northern Indian Ocean. Below are the most significant cyclones in the time period. Because much of the North Indian coastline is near sea level and prone to flooding, these cyclones can easily kill many with storm surge and flooding. These cyclones are among the deadliest on earth in terms of numbers killed.
North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons |
A tropical cyclone impacted Andhra Pradesh, India, on 25 November 1839 and killed around 300,000 people. [16]
On 5 October a powerful cyclone hit near Calcutta, India, killing around 300,100 people. [17] The anemometer in the city was blown away during the cyclone. Over 100 brick homes and tens of thousands of tiled and straw huts were leveled. Most ships in the harbor (172 out of 195) were either damaged or destroyed. [18] The cyclone of 1864 destroyed the ports at Khejuri and Hijli. [19]
The anemometer in the city was blown away during the cyclone. A lack of storm surge minimized the overall damage from this system. [18]
This severe cyclone killed 80,000 people and caused significant damage. [15]
On 31 October a cyclone hit the Meghna River Delta area of India. The storm surge killed 100,000, and the disease after the storm killed another 100,000.[ citation needed]
A cyclone had formed near the Laccadive Islands on 24 May 555 kilometres (345 mi) west of southern India. The SS Mergui encountered the cyclone off the Horn of Africa, 400 kilometres (250 mi) east of Socotra on 1 June and reported it stronger than the tropical cyclone which struck Calcutta in 1864. Just before midnight on the night of 1 June the Diomed reported winds of hurricane force and a pressure of 984 millibars (29.1 inHg). The ship Peshawar reported a westerly hurricane at the east end of the Gulf of Aden towards midnight on the night of 2 June. At noon on 3 June the Tantallon reported a pressure of 943 millibars (27.8 inHg) near 12.5N 45.5E. On 3 June the German corvette Augusta, the French dispatch boat Renard, and the British ship SS Speke Hall were lost in the storm in the Gulf of Aden. The system continued westward and shrank in as it moved into the entrance of the Red Sea, crossing the coast of Djibouti. It became the first north Indian ocean tropical cyclone in history to transit the Gulf of Aden with full hurricane intensity and held the record of westernmost landfalling North Indian Ocean tropical cyclone ever. [20]
An intense cyclone struck Odisha. [13] It killed one person.
In November a violent cyclonic storm with hurricane-force winds struck Gujarat causing a ship sunk, killing 1300 people.[ citation needed]
cyclones as earthquakes, as has occurred in Mumbai in 1618 and Kolkata in 1737 (Bilham, 1994; Bilham and Gaur, 2013).
1618 , May 26. Bombay . Hurricane and earthquakes , 2000 lives lost . " --
This article needs additional citations for
verification. (September 2020) |
The years before 1890 featured the pre-1890 North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons. Each season was an event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation. The North Indian tropical cyclone season has no bounds, but they tend to form between April and December, peaks in May and November. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northern Indian Ocean. Below are the most significant cyclones in the time period. Because much of the North Indian coastline is near sea level and prone to flooding, these cyclones can easily kill many with storm surge and flooding. These cyclones are among the deadliest on earth in terms of numbers killed.
North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons |
A tropical cyclone impacted Andhra Pradesh, India, on 25 November 1839 and killed around 300,000 people. [16]
On 5 October a powerful cyclone hit near Calcutta, India, killing around 300,100 people. [17] The anemometer in the city was blown away during the cyclone. Over 100 brick homes and tens of thousands of tiled and straw huts were leveled. Most ships in the harbor (172 out of 195) were either damaged or destroyed. [18] The cyclone of 1864 destroyed the ports at Khejuri and Hijli. [19]
The anemometer in the city was blown away during the cyclone. A lack of storm surge minimized the overall damage from this system. [18]
This severe cyclone killed 80,000 people and caused significant damage. [15]
On 31 October a cyclone hit the Meghna River Delta area of India. The storm surge killed 100,000, and the disease after the storm killed another 100,000.[ citation needed]
A cyclone had formed near the Laccadive Islands on 24 May 555 kilometres (345 mi) west of southern India. The SS Mergui encountered the cyclone off the Horn of Africa, 400 kilometres (250 mi) east of Socotra on 1 June and reported it stronger than the tropical cyclone which struck Calcutta in 1864. Just before midnight on the night of 1 June the Diomed reported winds of hurricane force and a pressure of 984 millibars (29.1 inHg). The ship Peshawar reported a westerly hurricane at the east end of the Gulf of Aden towards midnight on the night of 2 June. At noon on 3 June the Tantallon reported a pressure of 943 millibars (27.8 inHg) near 12.5N 45.5E. On 3 June the German corvette Augusta, the French dispatch boat Renard, and the British ship SS Speke Hall were lost in the storm in the Gulf of Aden. The system continued westward and shrank in as it moved into the entrance of the Red Sea, crossing the coast of Djibouti. It became the first north Indian ocean tropical cyclone in history to transit the Gulf of Aden with full hurricane intensity and held the record of westernmost landfalling North Indian Ocean tropical cyclone ever. [20]
An intense cyclone struck Odisha. [13] It killed one person.
In November a violent cyclonic storm with hurricane-force winds struck Gujarat causing a ship sunk, killing 1300 people.[ citation needed]
cyclones as earthquakes, as has occurred in Mumbai in 1618 and Kolkata in 1737 (Bilham, 1994; Bilham and Gaur, 2013).
1618 , May 26. Bombay . Hurricane and earthquakes , 2000 lives lost . " --