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Date

Although the date I've seen has always been April 29, the cyclone is listed under April 30. With timezone changes and the continuous nature of cyclones it is likely that either date is correct. Most sources just say "April". Jdorje

The cyclone started crossing the Chittagong coastline at around 10 pm or so on 29 April, 1991. It continued through the whole night. As someone staying up all night holding our doors and windows while battling the wind and looking into whole houses blown away, the whole incident was a memorable one for me. The date is, correctly, both 29 april and 30 april. --Ragib 04:15, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Strength/pressure

The article says it had a pressure of 898 mbar at landfall. This came from a UK technical memorandum on the 1999 Orissa cyclone (listed in the external links), but it is mentioned there only in passing and is almost too low to be believed (I'm fairly positive this would qualify as the most intense recorded landfall anywhere). Jdorje 19:08, 21 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

898mbar pressure comes from Joint Typhoon Warning Center estimate. See Annual Tropical Cyclone Report 1991. However, in my opinion it is questionable whether Western Pacific scale can be used to estimate minimal central pressure of Indian Ocean cyclone (by comparison, WPac and Atlantic scales are totally different). Labor Day Hurricane made landfall at 892mb, and Gafilo made landfall at ~900mbar too. --Mikoyan21 13:09, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, I knew about the Labor Day Hurricane of course. I guess I meant strongest mainland landfall. Jdorje 16:10, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Picture

Here is a pic of the storm. Not sure how to get it out of the PDF file...

https://metoc.npmoc.navy.mil/jtwc/atcr/1991atcr/pdf/nio/02b.pdf

Todo

General copyedit, more on the aftermath/recovery, inline sources. Jdorje 05:55, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It will be really cool if someone can get the photo of "Shaktiman", the huge crane that smashed into the Karnaphuli Bridge and broke it into two halves. --Ragib 07:12, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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