2021-05-17 06:35:57 GMT2021-05-17 14:35:57(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
NEW DELHI, May 17 (Xinhua) -- Cyclonic storm Tauktae Monday intensified into an extremely severe storm and is likely to hit India's Gujarat coast by the evening, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
Tauktae intensified into an extremely severe cyclonic storm and lay centered at 5:30 a.m. local time on Monday over east-central Arabian Sea, about 160 km west-southwest of Mumbai, the federal ministry of earth science quoting the IMD said.
It said the cyclone is very likely to reach Gujarat coast in the evening and cross the area between Porbandar and Mahuva in Bhavnagar district during the night as a very severe cyclonic storm with a maximum sustained wind speed 155-165 kmph gusting to 185 kmph.