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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 derecho emerged into the Atlantic Ocean shortly before 2:00 a.m. EDT (0600 UTC) on June 30, while still producing winds as high as 81 mph (130 km/h) at the coast in Tuckerton, New Jersey and strong and damaging winds on the Delmarva Peninsula. [7]
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 May 2022 Canadian derecho was a high-impact derecho [5] event that affected the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor, Canada's most densely populated region, on May 21, 2022.. Described by meteorologists as a historic derecho and one of the most impactful thunderstorms in Canadian history, [6] [7] winds up to 190 km/h (120 mph) as well as around four tornadoes caused widespread and extensive ...
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 ...
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]
Map of tornado warnings and confirmed tornadoes from the derecho. In the leadup to the derecho, temperatures were very warm. Sioux Falls, South Dakota saw a high of 94 °F (34 °C). Temperatures in the 90s helped fuel the severe weather that later erupted over the Great Plains. [5]