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The event was confirmed to be a derecho in Finland alone, extending the swath of wind damage to the west coast of the country. [110] August 2010 Baltic – Finland derecho: 8 August 2010: Severe wind gusts more than 81 mph (130 km/h; 36 m/s) were measured in Estonia. [110] [111] This was determined to be a derecho event. [112] July 2011 ...
Derecho comes from the Spanish adjective for "straight" (or "direct"), in contrast with a tornado which is a "twisted" wind. [5] The word was first used in the American Meteorological Journal in 1888 by Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs in a paper describing the phenomenon and based on a significant derecho event that crossed Iowa on 31 July 1877. [6]
2024 Houston derecho. From the evening of May 16, 2024, to midday May 17, 2024, a derecho struck the Gulf Coast of the United States from Southeast Texas to Florida, causing widespread damage, particularly in the city of Houston and surrounding metropolitan area. [7] At least seven people were killed by the storms, dubbed the Houston derecho by ...
The progressive derecho tracked across a large section of the Midwestern United States and across the central Appalachians into the mid-Atlantic states on the afternoon and evening of June 29, 2012, and into the early morning of June 30, 2012. It resulted in a total of 22 deaths, millions of power outages across the entire affected region, and ...
The June 2020 Rocky Mountains-Northern Plains derecho was a rare derecho that moved across at least 750 miles and affected eight US states on June 6, 2020. [1] [2] The derecho was notable for forming in a highly unusual location west of the Rocky Mountains and crossing the Continental Divide. The storm which crossed the entire state of Colorado ...
May 2022 Midwest derecho. A cell tower that was blown over in Hartington, Nebraska. On May 12, 2022, a severe squall line followed by a derecho took place across the Midwestern United States. Two fatalities occurred from the first line of storms while three more deaths occurred from the derecho itself.
The August 2020 Midwest derecho was a powerful derecho affecting the Midwestern United States on August 10–11, 2020, primarily eastern Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana. It caused high winds and spawned an outbreak of weak tornadoes. Some areas reported torrential rain and large hail. [ 2 ][ 7 ][ 1 ]
The Ohio Fireworks Derecho was one of the first bow echos and line echo wave patterns to be radar-documented. The Ohio Fireworks Derecho (or also the Ohio Independence Day derecho of 1969 ), was a severe wind event that took place during the evening hours of July 4 (American Independence Day) 1969. It affected the northern half of the state of ...