WEST MICHIGAN (May 31, 2014) — For those of us that remember the date…May 31, 1998 marked a widespread severe weather wind event, especially along the immediate lakeshore. It was the Southern Great ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. An intense complex of storms tracked through ...

A gigantic line of powerful thunderstorms could affect one in five Americans on Wednesday as it rumbles from Iowa to Maryland packing hail, lightning and tree-toppling winds.What is a derecho? | Maps: ...

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 ...

CRANSTON, R.I. (WJAR) — The wind damage and severe thunderstorms on Oct. 7 were part of a rare weather event here in Southern New England: a derecho, and it caused widespread wind damage throughout ...

A destructive event called a derecho is developing in the northern Plains. FOX Weather said Tuesday that the cluster of thunderstorms – often described as an inland hurricane – will impact the area, ...

It has been 20 years since one of our most memorable weather events: the July 13th Derecho. Radar image of the July 13, 2024 derecho as it moved across Kentuckiana The National Weather Service in ...

The powerful Monday storm that toppled trees, knocked power out and may have spawned a tornado in Rogers Park was a derecho. What is a derecho? This type of weather event is a widespread summer storm ...

WASHINGTON — Severe weather headed for central and Southeastern parts of the U.S. could cause a rare weather event called a derecho. The term for the widespread wind event derives from the Spanish ...

This post was originally published on June 8. This summer in Washington, we have enjoyed a derecho reprieve (so far!). However, there is another storm brewing: The basic, scientific criteria used to ...

It's a popular term in meteorology for a storm event. But not every bad storm that passes through is a derecho. There are actually distinct characteristics that classify a weather event as a derecho.