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The derecho caused widespread wind damage from Iowa to Indiana, according to a post on X from NOAA. @NOAA 's #GOES16 🛰️ caught the destructive #derecho that swept across the Midwest yesterday ...
NOAA satellite imagery of the derecho passing over the Midwest. An intense derecho affected much of 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]
Iowa last saw a derecho on July 15, and that storm produced an EF1 tornado that hit the northwest side of the metro. Reporting contributed by Paris Barraza. Kyle Werner is a reporter for the Register.
Nearly 75,000 electric customers were without power on Monday morning across Indiana and Illinois in the wake of the derecho, according to PowerOutage.us, and it may not be until later this week ...
Later on, another derecho impacted Nebraska, Iowa, and Illinois on the evening of May 23 into the morning of May 24. [93] July 2024 Midwest derecho: July 15, 2024: A derecho formed over Iowa, bringing winds over 70mph to eastern Iowa and tornadoes to Des Moines. It continued east and south, bringing gusts over 100mph, with a peak gust of 111mph ...
Another derecho formed in southwestern Nebraska late on May 23 and moved eastward, producing widespread wind damage and weak tornadoes through Nebraska and Iowa and northwestern Illinois before withering away in the northern part of the state during the morning hours of May 24.
Monday's derecho was in the upper echelon of intensity. The derecho began as a small thunderstorms cluster near the Nebraska and Iowa border Monday morning, but as derechos typically do, it grew ...
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]