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Chicago Derecho: August 4, 2008: May 2009 derecho series: May 3–8, 2009: May 2009 Southern Midwest derecho: May 8, 2009: aka "The Inland Hurricane" June 2009 Mid-South Derecho: June 12, 2009 [24] June 2009 Southern KY derecho: June 16, 2009: June 2009 Midwest Derecho series: June 17–19, 2009 [citation needed] June 18 Midwest derechos: June ...
The derecho over Indiana on June 29. Composite radar image as the storm moved from Indiana to Virginia. 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.
Intense thunderstorms packing wind gusts over 100 mph blasted across the Midwest Monday afternoon into Monday night, snapping trees and damaging buildings during an extreme weather event known as ...
Later that evening, a separate system, the remnants of the previous day's derecho and fueled by the same Ring of Fire pattern, produced a small-scale tornado outbreak and damaging wind event across the Chicago metropolitan area, with two tornadoes confirmed in the city of Chicago itself, and wind gusts reaching 90 mph (140 km/h). An additional ...
An intense line of storms known as a derecho developed over the central United States late Monday morning. Derecho leaves trail of destruction in Iowa before racing toward Chicago Skip to main content
The derecho that struck Chicago, Illinois on 11 July 2011 left more than 860,000 people without electricity. [25] The June 2012 North American derecho took out electrical power to more than 3.7 million customers starting in the Midwestern United States, across the central Appalachians, into the Mid-Atlantic States during a heat wave .
The derecho began as a small thunderstorms cluster near the Nebraska and Iowa border Monday morning, but as derechos typically do, it grew in size, picked up speed and gained intensity as it moved ...
Derechos of similar intensity to the August 2020 storm impact the Midwestern U.S. roughly once per decade, with similar derechos having occurred in 1998 and 2011. [2] As with derechos in general, the continuous downwelling of high winds associated with the nearby jet stream and the expansion of dense rain-cooled air in the storm's wake induced ...