Cyclone Tauktae: PM Narendra Modi to visit Gujarat, Diu to review situation
PM Modi will leave Delhi at 9:30 am today and land at Bhavnagar from where he will proceed for an aerial survey. India s PM Modi addresses a gathering before flagging off the Dandi March , in Ahmedabad (Photo: Reuters)
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Updated: May 19, 2021, 06:37 AM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Gujarat and Diu today to review the situation and damage due to Cyclone Tauktae, informed the Prime Minister s Office on Tuesday.
The Prime Minister will leave Delhi at 9:30 am today and land at Bhavnagar from where he will proceed for an aerial survey of Una, Diu, Jafarabad, and Mahuva. He will also hold a review meeting at Ahmedabad after the aerial survey.
The Deep Depression (remnant of the Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Tauktae ) over Gujarat region moved north-eastwards with a speed of about 07 kmph during past 06 hours, weakened into a Depression and lay centred at 0530 hours IST of today, the 19th May, 2021 near latitude 24.3N and longitude 73.3E over south Rajasthan and adjoining Gujarat region, about 60 kms west-southwest of Udaipur (Rajasthan) and 110 km east-northeast of Deesa (Gujarat region).It is very likely to move north-eastwards and weaken gradually into a Well-Marked Low pressure area during next 12 hours. The remnant of the system is very likely to move further north-eastwards across Rajasthan to west Uttar Pradesh during the next two days.
As Cyclone Tauktae weakened into a "depression", several states are likely to receive rainfall due to the cyclone's interaction with the western disturbance.
Tauktae tears up Gujarat coast; 13 dead, 16,000 houses damaged PTI
Updated May 19, 2021, 11:12 am IST
Tauktae, characterised as an extremely severe cyclonic storm on Monday, has now weakened into a cyclonic storm
Tauktae triggered heavy rains in many parts along its way from the Saurashtra coast to North Gujarat. (Photo: File/PTI)
Ahmedabad: As many as 13 people were killed in Gujarat as cyclone Tauktae pummelled parts of the state and left behind a trail of destruction along the coast, uprooting electric poles, trees and damaging thousands of houses and roads, officials said on Tuesday.
In what was one of the worst cyclones faced by the state, Tauktae triggered heavy rains in many parts along its way from the Saurashtra coast to North Gujarat with as many as 46 talukas receiving over 100 mm of downpour, while 12 of them recorded 150 mm to 175 mm of rains.
Cyclone Tauktae weakened into a depression and lay centred over south Rajasthan and adjoining Gujarat region on Wednesday morning, the India Meteorological Department said. After causing widespread rain in Gujarat, the cyclone is expected to bring showers in many other states also, including Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi, due to its interaction with the western disturbance, the IMD said. The cyclonic depression was located around 60 km west-southwest of Udaipur in Rajasthan, and 110 km of Deesa in Gujarat, the IMD said in its morning bulletin. The remnant of the system is very likely to move further north eastwards across Rajasthan to west Uttar Pradesh during the next two days, it said.