Violent destruction! Tropical cyclone Seroja rages in Indonesia and East Timor.
Tropical Cyclone Seroja is a currently active tropical
cyclone that is responsible for a series of significant
and deadly flash floods and landslides in East Timor
and southern Indonesia. The cyclone damaged
or destroyed at least 90 houses and five bridges
in Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara province while 2,655
people were evacuated to government-owned shelters.
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10,000 homes have been submerge. During 5 April, Seroja
continued to move at 2 knots (3.7 km/h) in
a west-southwest direction, away from the Indonesian coastline.
The storm intensified to a Category
2 tropical cyclone during the day with 10-minute
sustained winds of 105 km/h (65 mph) and its central
pressure having deepened to 982 mb (29.00 inHg).
The shear and the presence of dry air in the east
is expected to stop further intensification.
g term uncertainty in both track and intensity existed
in the forecasting of Seroja due to interaction with
Tropical Low 23U to the far west of the storm.
As a tropical low, Seroja caused widespread rainfall
and thunderstorms in West Nusa Tenggara and East Nusa
Tenggara provinces in Indonesia. A bridge connecting
the cities of Kupang and Malaka Regency was destroyed,
making travel between the two regions extremely difficult.
In East Timor, a landslide and floods
displaced more than 8,000 people. he storm caused power
outages in the entirety of East Timor, in addition
of damaging the presidential palace.
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