The very severe cyclonic storm, VARDAH over westcentral and adjoining southwest Bay of Bengal moved further nearly westwards during past 06 hrs with a speed of 13 kmph and lay centred at 0530 hrs IST of today, the 12 th December, 2016 over westcentral & adjoining southwest Bay of Bengal near Latitude 13.2ºN and Longitude 81.6ºE, about 150 km east-northeast of Chennai and 220 km eastsoutheast of Nellore. The system is very likely to move nearly westwards and cross north Tamilnadu and south Andhra Pradesh coasts, close to Chennai as a severe cyclonic storm with a wind speed of 100 to 110 kmph gusting to 120 kmph by today, the 12th December 2016 afternoon.