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Straight-line wind damage inflicted transmission towers in Houston, Texas. As the derecho moved through the Greater Houston area, it produced wind gusts of up to 100 mph (161 km/h) in Downtown Houston. [2] The derecho was considered the worst damaging wind event to affect Houston in nearly 25 years.
In fact, this derecho was so destructive that Accuweather compared its destruction to that of Hurricane Irene, and The Weather Channel compared it to hurricane damage in general. [25] Many lost power for 5 days, some much longer.
This storm system caused damage from as far north as New York and Connecticut, to as far south as Maryland, killing five people and causing extensive damage. [54] Ahead of the derecho, several supercells formed in, and travelled through the Northeastern Tri State Area, as well as Southern New England, producing hail up to the size of baseballs ...
Money doesn't grow on trees, but for farmers, what they grow does make them money - unless it's destroyed by a rare derecho. Almost a month away from the beginning of harvest, corn crops in Iowa ...
An intense line of destructive thunderstorms known as a derecho wreaked havoc across the central United States on Thursday, blasting the region with tree-snapping winds on par with a Category 2 ...
The Midwest derecho of 2020 heaved severe thunderstorms across eastern Iowa and northwestern Illinois, carrying winds as high as 140 mph and covering a nearly 800-mile stretch in the United States ...
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 ...
The SPC logged 64 hurricane-force, 75 mph (121 km/h) or greater wind reports, making December 15 the most prolific wind event in United States history at the time. The record was broken with 68 hurricane-force wind gusts on May 12, 2022. [6] [29] [30] First reports of damage filtered in from western and central Kansas.