Odisha remains … Cyclone Fani was upgraded to a category 5 cyclone on 2 May and is expected to be the most severe cyclonic storm since the super cyclone of 1999 which killed 10,000 people. The Met department has issued a "yellow warning" for Odisha, predicting heavy to very heavy rain in several areas. S ource . The Navy, the National Disaster Response Force and the Coast Guard are on high alert. On 3rd May the cyclone Fani (“Foni”), a category 4 storm, impacted three states in India (Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal). Eight people have been killed as cyclone Fani made a landfall in Puri on Odisha coast around 8 am, triggering heavy rainfall coupled with high velocity winds with speed of … Extremely severe cyclonic Fani hit the Odisha coast in Puri early morning today with a wind speed or around 175 kmph.