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At least seven people were killed by the storms, dubbed the Houston derecho by the National Weather Service, [7] which brought winds up to 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) along with four tornadoes. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ]
An example is the Late-May 1998 tornado outbreak and derecho that moved through the central Northern Plains and the Southern Great Lakes on 30–31 May 1998. Low dewpoint derecho – A derecho that occurs in an environment of comparatively limited low-level moisture, with appreciable moisture confined to the mid-levels of the atmosphere. Such ...
The derecho traveled more than 500 miles (800 km) before moving off the coast of Texas and Louisiana into the Gulf of Mexico and produced winds up to 78 mph (126 km/h) with hail up to 3.75 inches (9.5 cm) in diameter and a few tornadoes including a short-lived EF2 tornado north of Hochatown, Oklahoma that tossed two barges over 100 yd (91 m), a ...
A derecho is a long-lived complex of thunderstorms that produces widespread wind gusts over 58 mph over an area at least 400 miles long. The Midwest is one of the areas of the United States where ...
SPC day 1 convective outlook for April 1, 2024, at 20Z Photo by the National Weather Service of damage from the Tornado outbreak and derecho of April 1–3.. On March 28, the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) first delineated a risk of organized severe weather across the Central and Southern Plains, as well as the Mississippi and Ohio River valleys for the beginning of April. [5]
The derecho caused widespread wind damage from Iowa to Indiana and produced the tornado that hit the Des Moines metro. Storms spawning a EF1 tornado in Iowa on Monday were part of a derecho. What ...
The June 2012 Mid-Atlantic and Midwest derecho was one of the deadliest and most destructive fast-moving severe thunderstorm complexes in North American history. 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 ...
List of North American tornadoes and tornado outbreaks; List of derecho events; List of F4 and EF4 tornadoes. List of F4 and EF4 tornadoes (2020–present) List of tornadoes observed by mobile radars; Tornado outbreak and derecho of April 1–3, 2024 – another significant severe weather event that happened less than two months earlier.