Severe cyclone Dana's landfall that commenced around midnight on Thursday continued to enter land until early morning of Friday. Even at morning around 6 am, Dana maintained the intensity of a severe cyclone with wind speed of 100-110 kmph gusting to 120 kmph.

Cyclone Dana is expected to hammer the low-lying regions of West Bengal and Odisha, home to around 150 million people, as a “severe cyclonic storm” late on Thursday or Friday morning, India’s weather bureau said. At least 1.1 million people on India’s eastern coast were fleeing to storm shelters inland, just hours before the storm’s arrival.