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 ...

Monday's deadly and destructive summertime storm that wreaked havoc on the Midwest is known as a "derecho" — but what exactly is this, and where did it get its name? A derecho is "a widespread, ...

FILE- Wind fueled fires burn in a pasture which was part of a fire that burned and stretched across Ellis, Russell, Osborne and Rooks counties, Dec. 16, 2021, near Natoma, Kan. A National Weather ...

Last week, thousands of residents received tornado warnings to take cover as a twister was headed their way. While that was true for Cypress and parts of Waller County, the Houston area actually ...

The forecast is worrisome: The National Weather Service predicted late-afternoon thunderstorms would congeal into a derecho over eastern South Dakota by the evening of July 28. Then, the storm and ...

A rare storm phenomena called derecho is expected to cross many states Sunday night and into Monday morning. It could pack winds near 100 mph across Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and into ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Mayuri Farlinger remembers the ceiling tiles falling, fire alarms blaring, gas leaks and hurricane-force winds mangling exterior gates as last year’s derecho tore through Alliant Energy ...

A long line of quick-moving thunderstorms that produced a swath of damaging wind gusts across northern Texas and Oklahoma late Sunday likely qualified the event as a derecho, although that’s not an ...

In a way, that definition applies to the weather term, "derecho." Storm systems most often moved from west to east (left to right) in the Northern Hemisphere. This is a widespread windstorm that ...

Spring in Southeast Texas is a werewolf in mutation, all judders and snarls as teeth sprout from a brand-new snout. Air particles clash like billiards. Cold collides with warm, sucks up moisture from ...