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{{Short description|North Indian Ocean cyclone in 1971}}
{{Infobox Hurricane
|Name=1971 Odisha cyclone
|Basin=NIO
|Year=1971
|Image location=BayOfBengalTCOct2919710802UTCESSA9.gif
|Image name=1971 Odisha cyclone, pictured by ESSA 9 weather satellite
|Type=tropical cyclone
|Formed=October 27, 1971
|Dissipated=October 31, 1971
|1-min winds=100
|3-min winds=90
|Pressure=966
|Fatalities=≥ 10,000 total
|Areas=[[India]] and [[East Pakistan]] (present-day [[Bangladesh]])
|Hurricane season=[[1971 North Indian Ocean cyclone season]]
}}

The '''1971 Odisha cyclone''' was a devastating tropical cyclone that struck the [[Indian state]] of [[Odisha]] (known as [[Orissa]] at the time) on October 29, 1971. The cyclone also affected the Indian state of [[West Bengal]] as well as [[East Pakistan]] (present-day [[Bangladesh]]), which had been devastated by the [[1970 Bhola cyclone]] just less than a year prior and was in the middle of [[Bangladesh Liberation War]].

==Meteorological history==
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This tropical cyclone formed on October 26. Within few hours after its formation, due to presence of highly favorable conditions, the cyclone underwent rapid intensification which became an extremely severe cyclonic storm and Category 3 equivalent cyclone in one and ten minute mean windspeed on 29 October. At the time, the storm's central pressure was 966 hPa. At its peak intensity, the storm made landfall on the coast of [[Orissa|Odisha]] near [[Paradip]] early on the morning of October 30 and weakened the same day.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imd.gov.in/section/nhac/static/cyclone-history-bb.htm|title=Historical records of Severe Cyclones which formed in the Bay of Bengal and made landfall at the eastern coast of India during the period from 1970-1999|access-date=10 June 2014|publisher=India Meteorological Department}}</ref> It then curved northeast and dissipated on October 31.
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==Impact==
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The storm surge flooded low lying areas of the Odisha coast, resulting in more than 10,000 deaths and killing 50,000 cattle.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.osdma.org/ViewDetails.aspx?vchglinkid=GL002&vchplinkid=PL005|title=History of Cyclone|access-date=10 June 2014|publisher=Odisha State Disaster Management Authories|archive-date=14 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714162617/http://www.osdma.org/ViewDetails.aspx?vchglinkid=GL002&vchplinkid=PL005|url-status=dead}}</ref> Hundreds of thousands of trees were uprooted. The cyclone destroyed more than 800,000 houses. Communications and power lines were cut for days, pre venting news of the disaster from reaching the outside world. Coastal districts of Odisha such as [[Bhadrak]], [[Balasore]], [[Cuttack]] and [[Jagatsinghpur]] were widely affected by this cyclone, since gusts were recorded to be up to 175 kph there.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.preservearticles.com/201106017391/essay-on-super-cyclone-in-orissa.html|title=Essay on Super Cyclone in Orissa|access-date=10 June 2014|publisher=preservearticles.com}}</ref>

==See also==
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*[[1999 Odisha cyclone]]
*[[1970 Bhola cyclone]]
*[[Cyclone Hudhud]]
*[[Cyclone Phailin]]
*[[Cyclone Fani]]
*[[Cyclone Amphan]]

== References ==
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