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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 ...
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 ...
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.
June 4, 1993 Derecho: June 4, 1993: Midwestern US, Mid-Atlantic US – A fast moving derecho causes significant wind speeds and damage across its path. July 1993 Central Plains derecho: July 8–9, 1993 [9] Utah Wyoming Derecho 1994 May 31, 1994 One of the few established "Low Dewpoint" Derecho events according to the National Weather Service.
Multiple tornadoes and thunderstorms that struck the Great Plains and upper Midwest on Dec. 15 were the result of a rare event called a derecho, according to the National Weather Service’s Storm ...
NOAA satellite imagery of the derecho passing over the Midwest. An intense derecho affected much of the Midwestern United States on August 10–11, 2020, primarily eastern Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana. It caused high winds and spawned an outbreak of weak tornadoes. Some areas reported torrential rain and large hail. [2] [7] [1]
But even where the storm complexes fail to officially become a derecho, they can still bring dangerous conditions and significant damage over a broad area. At least two such complexes last week ...
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 ...