Cyclone Dana

**Severe Cyclonic Storm Dana** was a tropical cyclone. In October 2024, it  West Bengal, Odisha, and Bangladesh. It was the third named cyclone of the . Dana formed from a low pressure area in the Bay of Bengal on 22 October. On 24 October, it made landfall in Odisha. After this, it became weak. On 26 October, it became a remnant low.

More than 662,000 people  (left their homes behind) to  for the cyclone. Dana caused a lot of rain in Odisha. Hundreds of trees were  (pulled out). Some power outages happened. A woman in a  died. Officials thought that she died from cardiac arrest. In West Bengal, four people went  and four died. In Bangladesh, one person died. Some trees fell on buildings.

## Storm history 
On 22 October, a tropical depression came from a low pressure area in the eastern Bay of Bengal. Twelve hours later, it became stronger and began to . On October 23, it became a cyclonic storm on the India Meteorological Department (IMD)'s scale. The IMD named it *Dana.* The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) also started  (watching) it and called it *03B*. Dana moved  that day and became a severe cyclonic storm. It moved closer to eastern India on 24 October.

On the same day, Dana made landfall (crossed onto land from water) near , a place in north Odisha (an Indian state). At that time, it had wind speeds of around . It became weaker on top of land. On 26 October, it became a remnant low (a weak post-tropical cyclone) over the same area.

## Preparations 
More than 362,000 people evacuated (had to leave their homes behind) in Odisha. They lived across 1,653 villages. Government officials prepared 5,209 shelters. 300,000 people evacuated in West Bengal. Some  towns put s on tourists. The chief minister of Odisha, , set a  for zero  (people that were hurt or killed). He said that Odisha was "in total preparedness" (fully prepared) for the cyclone. 25  (NDRF) teams were sent out. 11 of them went to Odisha and 14 went to West Bengal. 135 railways were closed.

## Impact 
### Odisha 
Dana dropped a lot of rainfall in Odisha. It made hundreds of trees fall there. On its eastern shore, some areas were flooded. Mangroves in Bhitarkanika National Park, where the storm crossed onto land, decreased storm surge (rising water from a storm). Because of them, less damage occurred there and in nearby areas. In Paradip,  of rain fell on 24 October. Fallen trees blocked roads across the state. Some houses near the coast had their roofs blown off. The  rose to  in the Balasore district. Flash flooding happened in the Balasore and  districts. Utility poles were knocked down. This caused power outages. A  of 16,417 houses were damaged. Suresh Pujari, the minister of disaster management, estimated that  were lost in the state.

### West Bengal 
Dana caused four deaths in West Bengal. Three of them were due to electrocution. Multiple boats in the Ganges river at  capsized (turned over). This happened due to strong winds. Because of this, four people went missing. Some passengers swam back to land. They were taken to hospitals. In , Kolkata,  of rain fell between 4 am and 8 pm on 25 October.
### Bangladesh 
A farmer in  died. He was crushed by a falling tree branch. Falling trees also destroyed some buildings in . Dana dropped the highest amount of rain in the country on . On 25 October,  of rain fell there.

## Aftermath 
On 26 October, Suresh Pujari said that the power came back in 90 percent of the homes in which it was lost. He also said that people whose homes were destroyed would be moved to . On 6 November, Odisha's government gave  of districts hit by Dana . They were told to give this money to the people. The government also directly spent  for  work.

## Related pages 
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* Cyclone Hudhud
* Cyclone Sidr

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