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April 9, 1991. Southern Great Lakes Derecho of 1991. July 7–8, 1991. Pakwash Forest Blowdown. July 18, 1991. near Ear Falls, Ontario – 191,400 hectares of forest blown down, in a line some 40 km (25 mi) long. Post-damage survey estimated peak wind speeds of over 100 mph (160 km/h) [ 8] 1993 Storm of the Century.
2024 Houston derecho. From the evening of May 16, 2024, to midday May 17, 2024, a derecho struck the Gulf Coast of the United States from Southeast Texas to Florida, causing widespread damage, particularly in the city of Houston and surrounding metropolitan area. [ 7] At least seven people were killed by the storms, dubbed the Houston derecho ...
Derecho. A derecho ( / ˈdɛrətʃoʊ /, 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 convective system. [ 2] Derechos cause hurricane-force winds, heavy rains, and flash floods.
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 ...
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 June 29, 2012, and into the early morning of June 30, 2012. It resulted in a total of 22 deaths, millions of power outages across the entire affected region, and ...
A derecho moves across central Kansas on July 3, 2005. Jim Reed/Corbis via Getty ImagesThunderstorms are common across North America, especially in warm weather months. About 10% of them become ...
The August 2020 Midwest derecho was a powerful derecho affecting the Midwestern United States on August 10–11, 2020, primarily eastern Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana. It caused high winds and spawned an outbreak of weak tornadoes. Some areas reported torrential rain and large hail. [ 2 ][ 7 ][ 1 ]
On December 15, 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.