Amphan was a coastline tropical cyclone that caused widespread damage in East coast mainly West Bengal and Odisha along with Bangladesh. This is the first super cyclone to form in the Bay of Bengal after the 1999 super cyclone that hit Odisha. Its powerful destruction capacity was severe impact upon society and ecology, mainly in West Bengal after landfall in May 20^th of 2020. This paper is based on secondary data which mainly focuses on naming, origin, stages of evolution and characteristics of Amphan.