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The event was confirmed to be a derecho in Finland alone, extending the swath of wind damage to the west coast of the country. [110] August 2010 Baltic – Finland derecho: 8 August 2010: Severe wind gusts more than 81 mph (130 km/h; 36 m/s) were measured in Estonia. [110] [111] This was determined to be a derecho event. [112] July 2011 ...
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]
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 ...
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 ...
A derecho is a widespread thunderstorm complex, but its severity, distance and duration make this weather phenomenon stand out from the more typical spring and summer storms. The term "derecho" is ...
The derecho was considered the worst damaging wind event to affect Houston in nearly 25 years. The strong winds in Downtown Houston blew out the windows of many high-rise buildings in the area, littering the streets below with broken glass.
As the derecho moved through Ohio, a second storm developed in Iowa and tracked into northern Illinois. The earlier derecho had used up most of the convective energy in the atmosphere, so this second storm did not become another derecho. Nonetheless, a small MCS with a bow echo developed and became severe as it moved along this track.
A derecho is a type of severe thunderstorm event, according to NWS. It’s a “widespread, long-lived wind storm that is associated with a band of rapidly moving showers or thunderstorms.”