Cyclone Arnab crossed the Andhra Pradesh and Yanam coasts on October 28, 2026, and weakened into a severe cyclonic storm, according to the IMD as reported by The Week and the Daily Pioneer.
Deaths are reported as two, three or seven, while the Chief Minister’s letter says no human casualties, and houses damaged are given as 31 or about 180.
Crop damage of about 70,900 hectares and more than 28,000 people in shelters are the Chief Minister’s provisional figures.
A consolidated state toll had not been issued.
About 10,450 hectares were reported inundated or damaged, according to the same letter.
District officials reported about 6,000 electric poles uprooted in Konaseema alone, according to the Daily Pioneer.
More than 220 trees fell on state roads, and over 170 were cleared by Wednesday afternoon, according to the Chief Minister as quoted by the Daily Pioneer.
The Visakhapatnam Collector said about 80% of power and water supply had been restored, with about 150 teams clearing trees.
The Chief Minister said more than 28,000 people were moved to relief shelters and that the figures are provisional, and the NDRF said 714 villages in Andhra Pradesh were affected.
At least 609 schools across the state were converted into rehabilitation centres, according to The Week.
Heavy rain hit parts of Anakapalli, Visakhapatnam, Kakinada and Konaseema districts and inundated several low-lying areas, according to The Week. No rainfall totals were given.
39 NDRF teams and 80 SDRF teams were deployed across Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Puducherry, Telangana and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, according to the Daily Pioneer.
Odisha moved more than 30,000 people to safer locations, and schools and anganwadi centres in 16 of the state’s 30 districts were closed for the day, according to The Week.
Odisha kept 2,037 cyclone shelters ready, and all 19,143 fishing boats returned to shore, according to the Daily Pioneer.
Satellite image of a cyclone over the Bay of Bengal in 2023 (file image, not Cyclone Arnab), CIRA/NOAA via Wikimedia Commons, public domain
