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CEMPAKA-21 Cyclonic Storm

Extratropical Cyclone

Severity score41 / 100 · Moderate

How the score is calculated

The score starts at 8. It adds points from recorded affected, deaths, displaced and casualty counts, plus terms found in the story title, event type or status. For each count, only its highest matching band is used.

Affected people
1–999: +5 · 1,000–9,999: +12 · 10,000–99,999: +20 · 100,000–999,999: +28 · 1 million+: +35
Deaths
1–9: +8 · 10–99: +14 · 100–999: +22 · 1,000+: +30
Displaced people
1–9,999: +6 · 10,000–99,999: +12 · 100,000+: +18
Casualties
100 or more: +8
Story wording
+10 for terms such as catastrophe, famine, war, conflict, major earthquake, mass casualty or critical. Otherwise, +5 for active, ongoing, emergency, outbreak, cyclone or hurricane.

Score bands: Watch 0–24 · Moderate 25–49 · High 50–74 · Critical 75–100. Scores are capped at 100. Missing or unparseable figures add no points.

This is a rule-based WorldsAid triage indicator, not an official or independently validated classification. It does not account for recency or local context, and it can understate events with incomplete reporting. Check the linked sources.

Last verified20 Jul 2021
Date
Status
CLOSED
Aid Zone
ASIA
Countries
China
Agency
GDACS

Historical record

Status: CLOSED · Imported 2026-10-07

Closed for this historical import at the site owner’s request; not a new assessment of current conditions.

Permanent node 803 · Historical archive

In brief

  • What happenedTropical Cyclone CEMPAKA-21 can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed,exposed population and vulnerability.
  • How many affectedAffected persons: 850,000
  • What help is neededResponse priorities should be confirmed in the linked source reports as needs change.

What changed

First retained snapshot

No earlier verified snapshot is present in the recovered dataset. This record remains available as the historical baseline.

Situation

Tropical Cyclone CEMPAKA-21 can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed,exposed population and vulnerability. Updated: this report is based on advisory number 6: (19 Jul 2021 21:33). NameCEMPAKA-21 From - To18 Jul - 19 Jul Exposed countriesChina Exposed population850 thousand in Cate

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WorldsAid verification

A WorldsAid editor reviewed this record against the retained source record, cleaned feed formatting and checked the crisis, place and reporting date. 1 human-impact figure was separated from the narrative and dated where the source allowed. Earlier observations remain in the evidence history instead of being silently overwritten.

Verified figures

Affected persons
850,000 retained at 2021-07-20

What we knew when

  1. WorldsAid record entered the retained historical dataset.
  2. Last verification represented by this immutable snapshot.

Earlier figures are never replaced by later values; additional observations are retained as new ledger entries.

Provenance

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Cached dataset: worldsai_drup771.sql.gz

Record integrity:
VerifiedSHA-256 b45e2256d7ad081aaec2ef1db9ab9ab9df351c6c2a2fa3b46ceec3169bf3a2b9

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