Tropical Cyclone Tauktae Expected to Make Landfall in India Later Monday
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Tropical Cyclone Tauktae (pronounced TAU-te) is battering the western coast of India with heavy rain, gusty winds and coastal flooding as it heads for landfall later Monday in Gujarat state.
Tauktae is weakening but still has maximum sustained winds that were equivalent to the strength of a Category 4 hurricane as of Monday afternoon, local time.
The tropical cyclone is tracking northward parallel to the coast of western India right now. That is allowing heavy rain, gusty winds and coastal flooding to affect this region.
Tropical Cyclone Tauktae Making Landfall in India s Gujarat State With Storm Surge, Damaging Winds, Flood Threats
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Tropical Cyclone Tauktae (pronounced TAU-te) is making landfall along the western coast of India s Gujarat state with torrential rain, damaging winds and coastal flooding.
Tauktae has lost some intensity, but is making landfall as the equivalent of a Category 3 hurricane, as of the last advisory prior to landfall from the U.S. Joint Typhoon Warning Center Monday evening, local time.
Tauktae s center is moving ashore in southern Gujarat state between Porbanadar and Mahuva, about 150 miles northwest of Mumbai, according to the India Meteorological Department. It will be the strongest cyclone landfall in Gujarat in 22 years, according to NOAA s database.
Tropical Cyclone Tauktae Tied Strongest Landfall On Record In India s Gujarat State
The Weather Channel 4 days ago weather.com meteorologists
Tropical Cyclone Tauktae (pronounced TAU-te) made landfall in India with torrential rain, damaging winds and coastal flooding.
Tauktae s center moved ashore just before midnight local time, May 17 in western India s Gujarat state between Porbanadar and Mahuva, about 150 miles northwest of Mumbai.
According to the U.S. Joint Typhoon Warning Center, Tauktae was the equivalent of a Category 3 hurricane at landfall, with maximum sustained winds estimated at 125 mph.
This tied Tauktae with a May 1999 cyclone for the strongest cyclone by estimated wind speed to landfall in Gujarat, according to NOAA s database. A June 1998 cyclone which claimed an estimated 1,320 lives was the only other Category 3 Gujarat landfall in modern-era records dating to the 1970s.
Tropical Cyclone Tauktae Develops in Arabian Sea; Potential Danger to India, Pakistan Into Next Week
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A tropical cyclone has developed in the Arabian Sea and is expected to intensify and could become one of the strongest to threaten parts of western India and eastern Pakistan in more than two decades.
Tropical Cyclone Tauktae (pronounced TAW-te) continues to organize in the southeastern Arabian Sea, a couple of hundred miles west of southern India s Kerala coast.
Given an ample supply of warm – about 88 degrees Fahrenheit – deep ocean water, humid air and low wind shear, Tauktae could rapidly intensify into the equivalent of a formidable hurricane this weekend.