Diu: The landfall process of the eye of very extreme cyclonic storm Tauktae, which struck the Gujarat coast in Saurashtra area between Diu and Una, ended around midnight, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Tuesday.State officials stated there are no reports of any casualty due to the tropical storm 'Tauktae' (noticable as Tau'Te), including it has actually deteriorated.
The IMD also announced that the cyclone has actually compromised into a 'very extreme cyclonic storm' from the 'incredibly severe cyclonic storm'.
The whole eye of the cyclone has actually now crossed the coast and lies over land.
The rear sector of the eye is now getting in the land, the IMD said in a tweet after midnight.Landfall is the storm moving over the land after its augmentation in the ocean (heat source).
A cyclone is said to make landfall when the centre of the storm (eye) moves across the coast.The landfall brings with it high-speed winds, severe storm rise and torrential downpour.
The storm usually damages quickly after landfall as the ocean heat and moisture that fuels it are no longer available.
The cyclone hit the coast between Diu and Una around 9 pm on Monday and ended around midnight, the IMD said.The state government had shifted over two lakh individuals to safer areas before the cyclone hit the Gujarat coast.The place above which the eye of a cyclone crosses is designated as the place of landfall, a main said.The landfall procedure began with the entry of the forward sector of the eye of the cyclone into the land near the Union Territory of Diu with a wind speed of in between 150 and 175 km per hour, IMD officials said.
The cyclone brought gusty winds and heavy rains on the entire coastal belt, rooting out trees in Junagadh, Amreli and Bhavnagar districts, said district officials.The local meteorological centre said the cyclone will move towards northern Gujarat.
It will move towards Amreli district and then towards Banaskantha after crossing Surendranagar district.
We anticipate it will compromise as it moves forward, a main said.While there are no reports of any human injury or death, gusty winds coupled with heavy rain uprooted numerous trees and electrical energy towers on the coastal belt, another official said.
The cyclone winds likewise caused roadway blockage and power interruptions in many towns of these districts.Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani had actually said prior to the landfall that seaside districts of Amreli, Junagadh, Gir- Somnath and Bhavnagar will deal with the optimum force as the wind speed would go up to 150 kmph when the eye of the storm would make landfall.A major cyclone in Gujarat on June 9, 1998, had actually brought extensive death and destruction in its wake, particularly in the port town of Kandla.While main figures had then put the death toll at 1,173, including 1,774 went missing out on, media reports, eyewitness and volunteer accounts recommended that this was grossly an understatement.
A leading news publication had actually then claimed that a minimum of 4,000 people had died and many went missing as bodies were cleaned to the sea.