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Straight-line wind damage inflicted transmission towers in Houston, Texas. As the derecho moved through the Greater Houston area, it produced wind gusts of up to 100 mph (161 km/h) in Downtown Houston. [2] The derecho was considered the worst damaging wind event to affect Houston in nearly 25 years.
The SPC logged 64 hurricane-force, 75 mph (121 km/h) or greater wind reports, making December 15 the most prolific wind event in United States history at the time. The record was broken with 68 hurricane-force wind gusts on May 12, 2022. [6] [29] [30] First reports of damage filtered in from western and central Kansas.
The derecho produced widespread wind damage across North Dakota and Western Minnesota. Winds up to 96 mph (154 km/h) were reported with this storm. A man was killed by a fallen tree. [57] [58] 2018 Midwest-Mississippi River Derecho: June 28, 2018: A derecho producing squall line formed in Eastern Nebraska.
Money doesn't grow on trees, but for farmers, what they grow does make them money - unless it's destroyed by a rare derecho. Almost a month away from the beginning of harvest, corn crops in Iowa ...
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 ...
However, the August 2020 derecho was unusual for the longevity of the damaging winds it produced; some areas were subjected to these winds for up to an hour compared to the 10–20 minutes of sustained damaging winds in a typical derecho, resulting in conditions similar to the passage of a hurricane's eyewall.
A shelf cloud along the leading edge of a derecho in Minnesota A 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 ...
The Midwest derecho of 2020 heaved severe thunderstorms across eastern Iowa and northwestern Illinois, carrying winds as high as 140 mph and covering a nearly 800-mile stretch in the United States ...