From your link:
“We looked back through the past 30 years of reliable data, and could not find one single instance of a hurricane hitting that region. A couple of Tropical Storms steered well southwest and northeast of that region, but never directly impacted the Gulf of Oman. So this appears to be a historic event.”
Impressive loop, takes a while to load:
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/real-time/visir/indian/visirjava02A.html