Overview
- The fast-moving storms, which hit on Sunday across Mahbubabad, Warangal, Nalgonda, Khammam and the Godavari districts, drenched paddy and maize laid out to dry at government-run procurement centers and market yards.
- Lightning killed tenant farmer Pennada Arjuna Rao near Samalkot, according to hospital doctors, and local reports said hamali worker Neelam Venkanna died at an IKP center in Mahabubabad.
- Gusty winds uprooted trees and electric poles, ripped tin roofs from shops, and sparked a transformer fire at a 33/11 kV substation near Miryalaguda that cut power until repairs were completed.
- By Monday officials reported most power restored and key roads cleared, and they assured farmers the government will procure wet paddy as civil supplies teams made 2,000 tarpaulins available while losses are assessed.
- In Nalgonda alone about 200,000 quintals of paddy were in procurement centers before the downpour, highlighting how open-air drying leaves grain vulnerable to sudden squalls.