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A derecho is a significant, potentially destructive weather event that is characterized as having widespread, long-lived, straight-line winds associated with a fast-moving group of severe ...
A shelf cloud along the leading edge of a derecho in Minnesota Damage caused by a derecho in Barga, Italy. A derecho (/ ˈ d ɛ r ə tʃ oʊ /, from Spanish: derecho [deˈɾetʃo], 'straight') [1] is a widespread, long-lived, straight-line wind storm that is associated with a fast-moving group of severe thunderstorms known as a mesoscale ...
June 29, 2012, is a difficult day for those in and around Washington, D.C., to forget. On that day, an intense line of extremely gusty thunderstorms taught millions of people a new word: derecho.
Multiple tornadoes and thunderstorms that struck the Great Plains and upper Midwest on Dec. 15 were the result of a rare event called a derecho, according to the National Weather Service’s Storm ...
As the derecho moved through Ohio, a second storm developed in Iowa and tracked into northern Illinois. The earlier derecho had used up most of the convective energy in the atmosphere, so this second storm did not become another derecho. Nonetheless, a small MCS with a bow echo developed and became severe as it moved along this track.
The derecho caused notably high wind speeds of up to 126 mph (203 km/h) recorded in Iowa, with post-damage assessments of up to 140 mph (230 km/h) in some places. The derecho also spawned an outbreak of weak tornadoes, and resulted in an estimated $11 billion of damage. In addition, certain areas reported torrential rain and large hail. [69]
While Tuesday's storm was not a derecho, Iowa did experience one in July. Iowa last saw a derecho on July 15, and that storm produced an EF1 tornado that hit the northwest side of the metro ...
June 4, 1993, derecho; June 12–13, 2013, derecho series; June 2009 Southern Kentucky derecho; June 2012 North American derecho; June 2020 Pennsylvania–New Jersey derecho; June 2020 Rocky Mountains-Northern Plains derecho