It's a type of severe weather that doesn't come up often, but it can be just as threatening as a tornado. It's called a derecho. Derechos are clusters of violent storms spanning at least 240 miles.
“‘Derecho’ is an uncommon term used for an infrequent kind of storm system. A derecho, as defined by the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., is ‘a widespread and long-lived windstorm that is ...
Strong storms that brought hurricane-force winds to an area stretching from the Upper Plains to the Midwest have been preliminarily classified by the National Weather Service as a derecho, defined as ...
UPDATE: The SPC has preliminarily declared Tuesday morning’s thunderstorms a derecho. EARLIER UPDATE: Did you hear the wind (or the sirens) early Tuesday morning? That was likely a derecho that ...
The Midwest is infamous for derechos, the widespread, long-lasting, destructive windstorms generated by thunderstorms in summer. On Aug. 26, 1965, 60 years ago tonight, severe thunderstorms spawned ...
A derecho with at least one 99 mph gust swept the Upper Plains and Midwest, the weather service says
Strong storms that brought hurricane-force winds to an area stretching from the Upper Plains to the Midwest have been preliminarily classified by the National Weather Service as a derecho, defined as ...
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