Komen approaching the Bangladeshi coast on July 30
Meteorological history
Formed
July 26, 2015
Dissipated
August 2, 2015
Cyclonic storm
3-minute sustained (IMD)
Highest winds
75 km/h (45 mph)
Lowest pressure
986 hPa (mbar); 29.12 inHg
Monsoon depression
1-minute sustained (SSHWS/JTWC)
Highest winds
85 km/h (50 mph)
Lowest pressure
989 hPa (mbar); 29.21 inHg
Overall effects
Fatalities
187–280 (including unrelated flooding)
Damage
$2 billion (2015 USD)
Areas affected
Myanmar, Bangladesh, India
IBTrACS
Part of the 2015 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
Cyclonic Storm Komen was an unusual tropical cyclone that originated near the southern coast of Bangladesh and later struck the same country while drifting over the northern Bay of Bengal. The second named storm of the 2015 season, Komen brought several days of heavy rainfall to Myanmar, Bangladesh, and India. It formed as a depression on July 26 over the Ganges delta and moved in a circular motion around the northern Bay of Bengal. Komen intensified into a 75 km/h (45 mph) cyclonic storm and moved ashore southeastern Bangladesh on July 30. The system turned westward over land and was last noted over eastern India on August 2.
Across its path, Komen dropped torrential rainfall, primarily in northwestern Myanmar where the precipitation totaled at 840 mm (33 in) in Paletwa. The rains compounded upon ongoing flooding and contributed to the worst flooding in the country in a century. About 1.7 million people were forced to evacuate as flood waters inundated houses to their rooftops. About 510,000 houses in the country were damaged or destroyed, and many residents lost their source of income as 667,221 acres (270,015 hectares) of crop fields were damaged. The floods killed 132 people, of which at least 39 were directly related to Komen. The government requested assistance from the international community to cope with the disaster, considered the worst in the country since Cyclone Nargis in 2008. Elsewhere, the storm's flooding damaged 88,900 houses in Bangladesh and covered crop fields for a week; Komen killed 45 people in the country, some of whom due to illnesses spread by the storm. Later, floodwaters affected southeastern India, killing 103 people and damaging or destroying 476,046 houses.
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