1997 North Indian Ocean cyclone season

Infobox hurricane season
Basin=NIO
Year=1997
Track=1997 North Indian Ocean cyclone season summary.jpg
First storm formed=May 13, 1997
Last storm dissipated=November 14, 1997
Strongest storm name=01B
Strongest storm pressure=927
Strongest storm winds=115
Average wind speed=1
Total depressions=5
Total storms=5
Total hurricanes=3
Total intense=
Fatalities=>777
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Inflated=
five seasons=1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999The 1997 North Indian Ocean cyclone season had no bounds, but cyclones tend to form between April and December, with peaks in May and November. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northern Indian Ocean. __TOC__

eason Summary

Five tropical cyclones were observed, making 1997 an average season. However, 3 reached Cyclone strength.

Very Severe Cyclonic Storm (01A)

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=NIO

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Formed=May 13
Dissipated=May 20
3-min winds=115
1-min winds=115
Pressure=927The equatorial trough spawned a tropical depression on May 13 in the southern Bay of Bengal. It drifted northward, reaching tropical storm strength on the 14th. Favorable upper level winds and generally warm water temperatures allowed the storm to become a cyclone on the 17th. It continued to slowly intensify to a peak of convert|135|mi/h|km/h|0|abbr=on winds on the 19th, and hit Bangladesh later that day at that intensity. It quickly dissipated, after causing significant damage and several hundred casualties.

Very Severe Cyclonic Storm (02B)

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=NIO


Track=Cyclone 02B 1997 track.pngFormed=September 19
Dissipated=September 27
3-min winds=65
1-min winds=65
Pressure=976On September 19, a tropical depression formed from an area of disturbed weather in the western Bay of Bengal. It drifted northwestward towards the Indian coastline, but a mid-latitude trough pulled it northeastward, The depression strengthened to a tropical storm on the 24th, and it reached cyclone strength while paralleling the Indian coastline on 26th. It made landfall in Bangladesh on the 27th, and dissipated shortly thereafter. Tropical Cyclone Cyclone 2B was responsible for 47 fatalities.

Cyclonic Storm (04A)

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=NIO

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Formed=November 2
Dissipated=November 14
3-min winds=35
1-min winds=35
Pressure=997On November 2 a tropical depression developed into a tropical depression over Sri Lanka. It drifted southward, northward, then westward over India. On the 10th, it was upgraded to a tropical storm over the Arabian Sea, and it reached its peak of convert|65|mi/h|km/h|0|abbr=on winds the next day. Wind shear caused the storm to dissipate over the open waters on the 14th.

Cyclonic Storm (03A)

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=NIO

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Formed=November 4
Dissipated=November 10
1-min winds=35
Pressure=997A broad trough of low pressure formed into a tropical depression on November 4 in the central Arabian Sea. It moved westward, slowly intensifying into a tropical storm on the 8th. Vertical shear weakened it to a depression later that day, but on the 9th, just before making landfall on eastern Somalia, it restrengthened to a tropical storm. Tropical Storm Three dissipated on the 10th without causing any reported damage.

Typhoon Linda

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=NIO


Track=Linda Pacific 1997 track.pngFormed=November 4
3-min winds=65
Dissipated=November 10
1-min winds=65
Pressure=976Typhoon Linda killed 330 while crossing the Malay Peninsula, emerged into the Bay of Bengal on November 4. It continued westward, reaching cyclone strength again, but vertical shear caused it to dissipate on the 9th.

ources

* [http://www.ndmindia.nic.in/WCDRDOCS/Primer%20for%20Parliamentarians.pdf Primer for Parliamentarians]
* [http://australiasevereweather.com/cyclones/ Gary Padgett Summaries]
* [http://www.weather.unisys.com/hurricane/indian_oc/index.html Unisys Track]
* [https://metocph.nmci.navy.mil/jtwc/atcr/atcr_archive.html JTWC Archive]

ee also

*List of North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons
*List of tropical cyclones
*Tropical cyclone
*Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale
*1997 Atlantic hurricane season
*1997 Pacific hurricane season
*1997 Pacific typhoon season
*South-West Indian Ocean cyclone seasons: 1996-97, 1997-98
*Australian region cyclone seasons: 1996-97, 1997-98
*South Pacific cyclone seasons: 1996-97, 1997-98