The 1995 North Indian Ocean cyclone season was below-average and was primarily confined to the autumn months, with the exception of three short-lived deep depressions in May.

Tropical activity was largely affected by the monsoon trough, which spawned the three deep depressions in May, as well as the two strongest cyclones in November.

After two weak depressions in September, the season's lone Arabian Sea storm developed on October 12, and remained largely away from land.

[2] The basin's activity is sub-divided between the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal on opposite coasts of India, and is generally split before and after the monsoon season.

[4] In addition to the storms tracked by the IMD, a monsoon depression struck northern Oman in late July, producing heavy rainfall that totaled 300 mm (12 in) on Jebel Shams mountain.

[5] During two weeks in the middle of May, a series of three deep depressions developed in unusual succession in the western Bay of Bengal.

[2] The series of storms helped end a drought in eastern India by bringing heavy monsoonal rainfall.

[11] On Hatia Island, the storm wrecked over 5,000 homes and 10,000 ha (25,000 acres) of crops,[9] with salt and shrimp farms in the region also destroyed.

[12] After the storm moved through the area, most freshwater ponds were intruded by saltwater, furthering damage to crops and causing a shortage of drinking water.

[14] At 11:00 UTC on May 6, the system moved ashore Tamil Nadu near Cuddalore, and by the next day degenerated into a remnant low.

[2] The second deep depression formed on May 8 about 120 km (75 mi) southeast of the Andhra Pradesh coastline, north of the previous system.

At 17:00 UTC that day, the system struck Andhra Pradesh near Tuni as it progressed northward, degenerating into a remnant low on May 10.

Early the next day, the system made landfall on Sagar Island in West Bengal state, and weakened while progressing northeastward into Bangladesh.

[2] On September 9, a tropical depression formed in the South China Sea in the west Pacific basin.

Moving to the west-northwest, the system resembled a monsoon depression at times, although the thunderstorms gradually became more concentrated.

By the following day, the system emerged into the Arabian Sea, whereupon its convection organized west of a sheared circulation.

[2][16] In India, the cyclone's strong winds were accompanied by heavy rainfall and a storm surge of 1.5 m (4.9 ft) that inundated the coastline several hundred feet inland.

The snowfall occurred without warning amid the busy mountain trekking season, and there were several avalanches and landslides across the country.

Aided by the same westerly wind burst that assisted Cyclone Daryl in the Southern Hemisphere, the disturbance gradually organized and persisted while moving west-northwestward through the Bay of Bengal.

[3] Shortly thereafter, the IMD estimated peak 3 minute winds of 190 km/h (120 mph), making the system an extremely severe cyclonic storm.

[22] Initially, about 500 fishermen were missing after the storm's passage; most were rescued or swam ashore, but over 100 people were killed when 10 boats were lost.

[17] In neighboring Myanmar, the cyclone destroyed most of the rice crop in Rakhine State just before the harvest, forcing many Rohingya farmers to borrow money to compensate for lost income.