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 ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

During the first half of 2023 alone, there were over 7,000 reports of severe-caliber thunderstorm winds or associated damage, according to the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center. These ...

An intense complex of storms tracked through the region on June 28th, 2018 producing significant wind damage across the Tennessee Valley. The storms tracked southward through Alabama towards the Gulf ...

A year ago, Houstonians found themselves becoming all-too familiar with a term many had never heard before: derecho. Coined by a physics professor at the University of Iowa in 1888, a derecho is ...

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 ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — This year marks 13-years since a powerful wind event, known as a derecho, moved through Alabama. The line of strong to severe storms formed south of a frontal boundary, ...

WEST MICHIGAN-- According to NOAA and the Storm Prediction Center, our Friday night/Saturday morning storms this past weekend are now being classified as a derecho (pronounced dur-ray-cho). If that ...