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A home in the Kenwood District of Cedar Rapids damaged by the winds estimated by the National Weather Service to have been 130 mph (210 km/h; 58 m/s). [2] Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the Linn County seat and second-largest city in the state, was one of the hardest hit areas of the storm.
The August 2020 Midwest Derecho delivered a maximum measured wind speed of 56 m/s (109 kn), with damage-estimated speeds as high as 63 m/s (120 kn) in the Cedar Rapids, Iowa area. [27] The storm was referred to as one of the largest "land-based hurricanes" in recorded history spawning 17 confirmed tornadoes across Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana.
Cedar Rapids is a city in and the county seat of Linn County, Iowa, United States. The population was 137,710 at the 2020 census, making it the second-most populous city in Iowa. [8] [9] The city lies on both banks of the Cedar River, 20 miles (32 km) north of Iowa City and 128 miles (206 km) northeast of Des Moines, the state's capital
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aka "Heartland Derecho", A severe weather event which took place from August 10–11, 2020 across the Midwestern United States and portions of southwestern Ontario. 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 Quad Cities forecast office has overseen many significant weather events since its foundation, most notably the August 2020 Midwest derecho, which brought widespread winds over 80 mph (130 km/h) across a significant amount of their county warning area, as well as extreme wind gusts estimated at 140 mph (230 km/h) in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. [3 ...
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