On October 29, 1999, a super cyclone with a wind speed of 300 mph ... submerged in flood waters 31 October 1999 near Balasore in Orissa, as river water flooded her village among thousands of ...

In Paradip, the Orissa port city hammered in a 1999 cyclone, at least seven ships were put to sea to ride out the storm, with other boats shifted to safer parts of the harbor, officials said.

including a 1999 cyclone that also hit Orissa and killed 10,000 people. Officials said early reports of deaths from Phailin won’t become clear until after daybreak Sunday. In Behrampur ...

As the BBC reminds us, "A deadly super-cyclone in 1999 killed more than 10,000 people in Orissa." Phailin is being described as the most powerful cyclone to threaten India since that storm 14 ...

A 1999 Orissa cyclone of similar strength killed 10,000 people. This storm could get as deadly, but the region Phailin is aiming at is not quite as low lying, so that's something that might lessen ...

The official death toll in the 1999 Orissa super-cyclone was put at 10,000. But I really don't think an accurate head count was possible. We did another special report on why there were not ...

They say the last time a Super Cyclone hit India was in 1999 when a terrifying storm scooped up the sea and triggered tidal waves that swept away some 10,000 people to death in Orissa. Ruben ...

A super-cyclone in 1999 killed more than 10,000 people in Orissa. Last October as many as 500,000 people in India were evacuated when a severe cyclone called Phailin swept through Orissa and ...

India has satellite-based cyclone warning systems along its coastline to warn ... But the disaster warning system did not help when the supercyclone struck Orissa in 1999. A day before the ...

Today a weather official in Orissa, Sharat Sahu ... said most deaths in a cyclone were caused by the storm damage and extra rainfall. In 1999, a so-called 'super typhoon' battered the same ...

But officials took few chances with Phailin, especially given memories of a 1999 Orissa cyclone that devastated the coastline and left at least 10,000 people dead. Nearly 1 million people were ...

But officials took few chances with Phailin, especially given memories of a 1999 Orissa cyclone that devastated the coastline and left at least 10,000 people dead. Nearly 1 million people were ...