The weather service says a storm off India's western coast has grown into a severe cyclone that might impact Gujarat state and southern Pakistan this week.
The cyclone, called Biparjoy, is projected to reach landfall between Mandvi in Gujarat and Karachi in Pakistan on Thursday afternoon, with maximum sustained winds of 125-135kmph (78-84mph), gusting up to 150kmph (93mph), according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
The IMD has recommended fishing communities in Gujarat's Saurashtra and Kutch regions to suspend activities and evacuate residents.
The Gulf of Kutch is home to two of India's largest ports, Mundra and Kandla, as well as Reliance Industries' Jamnagar refinery, the world's largest oil refinery complex.
In a stock exchange report on Monday, Gujarat Pipavav Port Limited stated that activities at its Pipavav Port had been suspended since late Saturday evening due to "prevailing severe weather conditions."
Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel said in a tweet that seven teams of India's National Disaster Response Force and 12 teams of State Disaster Response Force had been deployed in cyclone-prone districts.
Heavy rain and gusty winds would strike over a dozen districts in coastal Gujarat, though some of the areas are sparsely populated, limiting the damage, according to a weather official who declined to be named.
In neighboring Pakistan, the National Disaster Management Authority said preventative steps were being implemented in the southern and southeastern portions of the country that are likely to be affected.
"Its [the cyclone's] evolving impact will be certain only with further development of the situation," the authority stated in a statement.
Sindh provincial government officials also stated that they were prepared to evacuate residents from three areas that were expected to be affected.
Sindh is the country's second most populous province.
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The strongest cyclone to hit Pakistan was the 1999 Keti Bandar, a category 3 storm on the Saffir–Simpson scale. It resulted in the deaths of 6,200 people in Sindh’s impoverished Thatta district, where Biparjoy is also likely to hit.
In India’s Gujarat state, a 1998 cyclone killed at least 4,000 people and caused damage estimated at hundreds of millions of dollars.
Biparjoy delayed the onset of the annual monsoon over the southern state of Kerala, but now conditions are favourable for the progress of much-needed rains in some more parts of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu states, the weather office said.
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