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The derecho traveled more than 500 miles (800 km) before moving off the coast of Texas and Louisiana into the Gulf of Mexico and produced winds up to 78 mph (126 km/h) with hail up to 3.75 inches (9.5 cm) in diameter and a few tornadoes including a short-lived EF2 tornado north of Hochatown, Oklahoma that tossed two barges over 100 yd (91 m), a ...
The Utah-Wyoming derecho of 31 May 1994 was an event of this type. It produced a 45 m/s (90 kn) wind gust at Provo, Utah, where sixteen people were injured, and removed part of the roof of the Saltair Pavilion on the Great Salt Lake. Surface dew points along the path of the derecho were about 7–11 °C (45–50 °F). [16]
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.
An intense derecho -- a rapidly-moving thunderstorm complex that produces widespread wind damage -- cut power to nearly 1 million households and caused 11 deaths in the Canadian provinces of ...
The National Weather Service confirmed at least 21 tornadoes impacted four states in the central US on December 15, during an unprecedented storm that brought weather warnings to some 100 million ...
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 ...
7.3 May 14. 7.4 May 19–20 ... Most of the activity on March 9 took the form of a serial derecho, although eight tornadoes were reported. At least two people were ...
Derecho storms are also known for the characteristic bow-like shape of their radar profile [11] The SPC confirmed on the afternoon of June 3 that the storm was classified as a derecho. [12] Meteorologist Lee Robertson believed that the storm was rare even among other derecho events both for its "duration and intensity", particularly the wind ...