1999 Odisha cyclone.

The 1999 cyclone in Odisha , also known as Cyclone 05B, and Paradip cyclone, was the biggest  tropical cyclone in the Indian Ocean since the 1991 Bangladesh cyclone, and deadliest Indian storm since 1971.

A tropical depression formed over the Malay Peninsula on October 25. It moved to the northwest and became a tropical storm on October 26. It continued to increase  into a cyclone on October 27. On October 28, it became a severe cyclone with a peak of 160 mph (260 km/h) winds. It hit in Indian costal in the next day as a 155 mph (250 km/h) cyclone. It caused the deaths of  around 15,000 people,

The storm passed to the south of Myanmar and increased its strength, and turned to a cyclone on the 27th in the open Bay of Bengal. On October 28, the cyclone rapidly increased  to its peak level of 160 mph (260 km/h) winds, the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane. The system was the first storm to be given the new meteorological label "super cyclonic storm" by the IMD

17,110 km² (6,600 mi²) of crops were destroyed,and an additional 90 million trees were either uprooted or had snapped. Around  275,000 homes were destroyed due to the cyclone,  1.67 million people in Odisha were homeless.

A total of 9,803 people officially died from the storm, with 40 others still missing, though it is believed that 15,000 people died. 8,119 of those fatalities were from the Jagatsinghpur district.
 Another 3,312 people were injured. 2,043 out of 5,700, or 36% of the residents of Padmapur perished. The number of domestic animals  was dead around 2.5 million.


The high number of domestic animal deaths caused around 5 million farmers losing their livelihood. The damage across total  districts in India due to the storm was approximately $4.5 billion.