On August 5 , a low pressure area that had lingered in the northwestern Bay of Bengal organised into a depression about 230 km southeast of Balasore . The depression formed just as monsoonal rains and floods had killed over 200 people in the area . It deepened slightly and was upgraded to a deep depression late that night local time as it moved towards Orissa . The deep depression continued moving west-northwest and made landfall in Orissa between Chandbali and Paradip . In 48 hours , Alipingal in Orissa received 510 mm of rainfall between 5 & 6 August . In total 24 lives were lost due to the flooding caused by the system
monsoonal rains and floods
2007 South Asian floods
2007 North Indian Ocean cyclone season