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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 ...
Derecho comes from the Spanish adjective for "straight" (or "direct"), in contrast with a tornado which is a "twisted" wind. [5] The word was first used in the American Meteorological Journal in 1888 by Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs in a paper describing the phenomenon and based on a significant derecho event that crossed Iowa on 31 July 1877. [6]
According to the National Weather Service, the term comes from the Spanish word “derechos” to mean “direct” or “straight ahead" and was first used in 1888 by a chemist and professor of ...
June 29, 2012, is a difficult day for those in and around Washington, D.C., to forget. On that day, an intense line of extremely gusty thunderstorms taught millions of people a new word: derecho.
A derecho formed in Northeastern South Dakota near Roslyn and traveled through Central Minnesota into West Central Wisconsin, and Central Wisconsin into Southern Wisconsin. The Derecho traveled more than 350 miles (560 km) and produced winds up to 85 mph (137 km/h) with hail up to Half Dollar Size. [19] Southern U.S. March Derecho: March 9, 2006
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The National Weather Service in Sioux Falls classified the storm system as a derecho — a meteorological phenomenon not centered around South Dakota since June 2020, when a ... The term 'derecho ...
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