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The famous Derecho of May 30-31, 1998
WOOD via Yahoo News· 16 hours agoGRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — May 31, 2024 is the 26th anniversary of the famous “derecho” thunderstorm outbreak of 1998. A derecho (Spanish for “straight...
Derecho winds slamming the Midwest last week
Coeur d'Alene Press· 4 days agoA line of intense thunderstorms ripped through the region May 24 with wind gusts estimated to be as high as 100 miles per hour. The high winds resulted...
Were Iowa's Friday, May 24 storms part of a derecho?
WOI-TV Des Moines· 5 days agoA week of violent weather and deadly tornadoes was brought to a close early Friday morning as a massive front of storms barreled eastward across the...
Storm-weary Texas battered again as powerful storm, strong winds kill 1, cause widespread damage |...
Chattanooga Times Free Press· 1 day agoPower outages remained widespread in storm-weary Texas after another burst of severe weather flooded...
Iowa weather: Friday's storm system was Iowa's latest derecho
KCCI 8 Des Moines· 5 days agoDerechos actually have a specific definition, and they're more common than some realize.
May finishes out as second most active for severe weather
Fox Weather via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoThrough the first 28 days of May, the National Weather Service'sStorm Prediction Center received...
Digging into Iowa's historic 2024 tornado season: How rare was Greenfield's EF-4 tornado?
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo News· 12 hours agoA derecho is a widespread and usually fast-moving straight-line windstorm, often hundreds of miles long... Dec. 15, 2021, storms swept across the Great Plains and
Weather-weary Texas battered again as powerful storm, strong winds kill 1, cause widespread damage
San Antonio Express-News· 1 day agoPower outages remained widespread Wednesday in storm-weary Texas a day after another burst of severe...
National Weather Service classifies Friday morning system as derecho
KCRG-TV9 Cedar Rapids· 6 days agoA derecho, by definition, is a widespread, long-lived windstorm associated with thunderstorms. For a...
Iowa weather: Memorial Day weekend brings more rain and another chance for severe storms
KCCI 8 Des Moines· 6 days agoThe reprieve from storms doesn't last long.