This system formed off the west coast of India during the first week of June and moved northwest towards the Arabian Peninsula.
Approaching the Gulf of Oman, strong winds and heavy rains affected Sur during the afternoon on June 4.
Rain spread west that evening towards Muscat, where winds increased to hurricane-force from the north-northeast early on June 5.
The eye of the storm made landfall at Sohar at dusk on June 5, eventually dissipating well inland.
[4] In 1895, a cyclonic storm hit the Makran coast in Balochistan province in modern-day Pakistan.