Bhubaneshwar: The landfall process of severe cyclonic storm ‘Dana’ began on Odisha coast on Thursday night and was expected to continue till Friday morning, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
The coastal districts of Bhadrak, Kendrapara, Balasore and nearby Jagatsinghpur district witnessed sudden increase in wind speed which reached 100 kmph to 110 kmph and extremely heavy rain. A revenue department official said reports of trees getting uprooted were also received at the office of the Special Relief Commissioner here.
However, there was no report of any major damage or casualty so far even as the landfall process started more than an hour ago, the official said.
When the centre of the system reaches land, wind speeds are expected to reach 120 kmph, he said.
Das noted that the landfall process of the weather system will last for about four to five hours.
“The system is under continuous surveillance of the Doppler weather radar at Paradip,” he said.
Earlier in the day, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi said that both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah had enquired about the Odisha government’s preparedness to tackle the situation arising out of the cyclone.
