Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The 2009 Super Derecho was an extreme progressive derecho and mesoscale convective vortex (MCV) event that struck southeastern Kansas, southern Missouri, and southwestern Illinois on May 8, 2009. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Thirty-nine tornadoes, including two of EF3 strength on the Enhanced Fujita Scale , were reported in addition to high non-tornadic winds ...
On May 3, a moderate risk of severe weather was issued for parts of Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, mainly for a threat of intense downburst winds. [1] A major progressive derecho with widespread and extensive wind damage - as strong as 110 mph (175 km/h) at times [2] - and embedded tornadoes was confirmed to have traveled from East Texas all the way to Alabama with numerous reports of ...
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.
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 ...
A derecho is a line of strong thunderstorms that produces frequent wind gusts of at least 58 mph over the span of at least 400 miles. During particularly dangerous derechos, wind gusts can exceed ...
The June 16, 2009 storm was an unusually strong derecho containing vivid lightning and spawning several tornadoes. The worst of the damage was primarily in South Central Kentucky. This large storm system would later be classified as a derecho by the National Weather Service. It was a fast moving storm system moving across Kentucky, west to east ...
A friend of mine, Wayne Curtis, has a new gig writing a monthly review of classic cocktails for the Atlantic.Curtis, who is the author of And a Bottle of Rum, A History of the New World in Ten ...
Making money on foreclosures and underwater properties is a growth industry. Real estate speculators, who got us into this mess to begin with, are rubbing their hands in glee, reports Fortune ...