These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northern Indian Ocean.

An average of five tropical cyclones form in the North Indian Ocean every season with peaks in May and November.

The depression formed over Orissa on 27 August and moved in west-northwest direction across the plains of India from Chhattisgarh, East Rajasthan and North Gujarat.

It weakened slowly and its remnants reached into the Arabian Sea on 6 November, where it couldn't able to regenerate due to unfavourable conditions and dissipated by the same night.

Despite remaining just offshore Andhra Pradesh, the storm rapidly intensified into a severe cyclone and reached hurricane intensity.

By the next day, the storm made landfall between Nellore and Kavali in its peak intensity and dissipated over Rayalaseema on 17 November.