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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 overall derecho caused about $11 billion (2020 USD) in damage and thousands of power outages. August 15 – An EF1 anticyclonic fire tornado in California from the Loyalton Fire has a tornado warning issued by the National Weather Service, marking the first ever anticyclonic fire tornado to have a tornado warning issued for one.
Radar track of the derecho from August 10 at 2 a.m. CDT to August 11 at 4 a.m. CDT. The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) did not initially foresee an event of this magnitude, primarily due to sporadic model solutions, more specifically the large variance in intensity, location, and coverage of this derecho. [147]
The straight-line wind storm, which produced severe wind damage across portions of eight Midwestern states on Aug. 10, 2020, is considered the most costly thunderstorm in U.S. history.
A derecho is a significant, potentially destructive weather event that is characterized as having widespread, long-lived, straight-line winds associated with a fast-moving group of severe ...
On Aug. 10, 2020, an intense derecho produced a swath of high winds and leveled crops from eastern Nebraska to parts of Michigan and northern and central Indiana. The damage swath extended for ...
The following is a list of weather events that occurred on Earth in the year 2022. The year began with a La Niña.There were several natural disasters around the world from various types of weather, including blizzards, cold waves, droughts, heat waves, wildfires, floods, tornadoes, and tropical cyclones.
This satellite image shows Tropical Cyclone Tino over the South Pacific Ocean early Saturday local time. (Photo/RAMMB) A tropical cyclone tracking just east of Fiji will continue to bring flooding ...