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The final tornado event of 2017 consisted of a small outbreak of 9 tornadoes that affected the Southern United States on December 19 and 20. Two EF2 tornadoes touched down in Texas on December 19, the first of which downed trees and concrete power poles near the town of Rusk , as well as damaging several roofs and outbuildings.
August 2017 Middle Europe derecho series: 10–12 August 2017: 10–11 August: A strong mesoscale system formed in central Austria at about 10 pm on August 10. The storm crossed eastern Czechia and central Poland during the night and hit Warsaw at about 7 am on August 11. At least one person was dead because of storm wind gusts.
The tornado outbreak of February 28 – March 1, 2017 was a widespread and significant outbreak of tornadoes and severe weather that affected the Midwestern United States at the end of February 2017 and beginning of March. Fueled by the combination of ample instability, strong wind shear, and rich low-level moisture, the event led to 71 ...
At least five people were killed Monday as severe storms swept across the South, spinning off several tornadoes and flooding widespread areas. Tornadoes, vicious storms kill five, flood large ...
The derecho caused widespread wind damage from Iowa to Indiana and produced the tornado that hit the Des Moines metro. Storms spawning a EF1 tornado in Iowa on Monday were part of a derecho. What ...
Between April 28 – May 1, 2017, a series of severe weather events affected the Central United States, producing life-threatening flooding and a major tornado outbreak.It formed out of a disturbance in the Southwestern United States on April 28, and caused significant impacts, including a heavy snowstorm in the Rockies, and other types of severe weather.
A derecho is a long-lived complex of thunderstorms that produces widespread wind gusts over 58 mph over an area at least 400 miles long. The Midwest is one of the areas of the United States where ...
The severe derecho affected the states of Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana. The derecho caused high winds and spawned an outbreak of a couple tornadoes. The derecho also caused the state of Iowa to lose approximately 550,000 acres of corn harvest. The highest wind estimate from the derecho was about 140 mph in Cedar Rapids, Iowa ...