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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 7582756" data-attributes="member: 92282">Tropical Cyclone  Phet barreled toward the coast of the Gulf Arab state of Oman Wednesday,  strengthening fast and forecast to become a powerful Category 5 storm.Phet is expected to reach Oman in 30 to 36  hours, said Professor Mark Saunders, lead scientist and project manager  at Tropical Storm Risk, a University College of London department. "It will strike land as a super cyclonic  storm with a speed of over 130 miles per hour, and either Category 4 or  5," Saunders told Reuters by telephone.A  storm that powerful would be strong enough to damage buildings, pull  down trees and damage infrastructure, he said.State television said the government had  ordered police and the air force to evacuate people from eastern Oman,  where waves were 8 meters (26 feet) high. National carrier Oman Air said  it had canceled two flights so that aircraft could evacuate people from  Masirah island off the east coast.The  storm is stronger than Cyclone Gomu, which killed at least 54 people in  Oman and Iran  in 2007, Saunders said.Phet will  move inland over eastern Oman before re-emerging over the north Indian  Ocean and roaring on to Pakistan, according to Tropical Storm Risk  forecasts shown on website <a href="http://www.tropicalstormrisk.com" target="_blank">www.tropicalstormrisk.com</a>.The cyclone will steer east of the Gulf and  the Strait of Hormuz, used by ships carrying 17 million barrels per day  (bpd) of oil, 40 percent of all seaborne oil, and may disrupt shipping  moving from the Gulf toward the Indian Ocean.Phet  strengthened to a Category 4 storm earlier in the day, with sustained  winds of over 143 mph. It was expected to become a Category 5 storm, the  most powerful category with winds of over 156 mph, in the next 12  hours.It will move through eastern  Oman Friday and then head northeast, probably weakening to a tropical  storm before coming ashore again near Ormara in Pakistan Sunday.Most Omani oil exports move from Mina  al-Fahal port near the capital Muscat. The storm should turn northeast  before reaching Muscat, but hurricane-strength winds are likely in the  capital.Operations at Oman LNG,  the liquefied natural gas export facility, are so far unaffected, "but  we are in touch with the authorities to see if there will be any  change," Nasser al-Kindy, head of Oman LNG corporate communications,  told Reuters.The three LNG  production facilities, known as trains, are in Sur in the east, close to  the path of the storm. They produce about 8 million tonnes per year of  LNG.The east is also home to  Oman's protected green back turtle.<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6514YX20100602" target="_blank">reuters</a><img src="http://www.tropicalstormrisk.com./tracker/dynamic/images/201003A_1.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://www.tropicalstormrisk.com./tracker/dynamic/images/201003A.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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