 Very Intense Tropical Cyclone Hellen of March 2014 was one of the most powerful tropical cyclones in the Mozambique Channel on record , as well as the second most intense of the 2013 – 14 South @-@ West Indian Ocean cyclone season . It formed on March 27 in the northern portion of the channel , and in its formative stages brought rainfall to the southern portion of Madagascar .
 beskreve the system as "very unusual", as the cyclone was unusually large, with a radius of 1,300 km (800 mi), and unusually intense, with a minimum pressure of 920 mbar (27