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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Because there are multiple areas where thunderstorms could merge into dangerous and far-reaching complexes, it is possible that some places could be hit by two rounds of dangerous thunderstorms in ...