Sentence examples for severe cyclone from inspiring English sources

A severe cyclone killed more than half a million people in 1970, while one in 1991 killed 143,000 people.

Yet India's meteorological department had given the Burmese government 48 hours' notice of how severe Cyclone Nargis would be, and where it would strike land.

As weather improved in India on Monday, the air force used planes and helicopters to drop food packets in affected places in and around Visakhapatnam, the city worst-hit by Sunday's severe cyclone, India's home ministry said.

On average, a severe cyclone with associated storm surge hits Bangladesh every 3 years (GoB 2009).

Detailed surveys are undertaken after the occurrence of every severe cyclone in the peninsular India since 1977.

It was a severe cyclone with an intensity (Fig. 1) similar to a Category 1 cyclone as per the Saffir-Simpson scale (Sadik et al. 2017).

According to the UN's World Risk Index, Vanuatu is the world's most at-risk country for natural hazards, due to climate change, in particular more severe cyclones and greater variation between periods of drought and flood.

A Nature Geoscience research paper from 2010 found that global warming will increase the average intensity of the storms, while the total number of storms will fall, meaning fewer but more severe cyclones.

For the four severe cyclones, the isobaric charts were collected at three hourly intervals from the India Meteorological Department.

Karachi, for example, remains at risks of severe cyclones and sea level rise.

Bangladesh is in the most climatically vulnerable area to severe cyclones, accounting for 70percentt of all storm surges in the world.