Tropical Cyclone Yaas Struck Eastern India With Dangerous Flooding Rain, Storm Surge, High Winds The Weather Channel 6 days ago weather.com meteorologists Tropical Cyclone Yaas struck eastern India with storm surge and high winds, and spread flooding rainfall well inland. Yaas gradually gained strength over the warm water of the northern Bay of Bengal. Its intensification was held back a bit by some modest easterly wind shear. Given the somewhat supportive environment and the lack of time Yaas spent over the Bay of Bengal, it made landfall as equivalent in strength to a Category 1 hurricane at landfall on May 26 in northern Odisha state.