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The derecho caused notably high wind speeds of up to 126 mph (203 km/h) recorded in Iowa, with post-damage assessments of up to 140 mph (230 km/h) in some places. The derecho also spawned an outbreak of weak tornadoes, and resulted in an estimated $11 billion of damage. In addition, certain areas reported torrential rain and large hail. [69]
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 ...
At least seven people were killed by the storms, dubbed the Houston derecho by the National Weather Service, [7] which brought winds up to 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) along with four tornadoes. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ]
A derecho is a line of strong thunderstorms that produces frequent wind gusts of at least 58 mph over the span of at least 400 miles. During particularly dangerous derechos, wind gusts can exceed ...
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.”
The derecho began as a cluster of scattered thunderstorms that had formed during the previous night over south-central South Dakota. These storms tracked east along the South Dakota– Nebraska border and became better organized and coalesced, producing hail with diameters between 1–2 in (25–51 mm) and wind gusts between 60–70 mph (97 ...
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 ...
On December 15, 2021, a rapidly-deepening low-pressure area contributed to a historic expanse of inclement weather across the Great Plains and Midwestern United States, resulting in an unprecedented [5] December derecho and tornado outbreak across portions of the Northern United States, a region normally affected by snow and cold weather during this time of year.