What is a ‘Derecho’?

This looks like a scene from ‘Stranger Things’ - here’s what the rare weather phenomenon ‘derecho’ really is 🌩
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[@AxelXionSora]

As someone who lived through hurricanes in Houston they’re like short term hurricanes that form over land as opposed to over oceans. Hurricanes =ocean Derecho= land

[@joellebrodeur1015]

Exactly. I think derecho is an inland hurricane. Even the eerie sky color is the same as strong hurricanes.

[@jameslowry4393]

Been thru 4 in houston.2nd one no power for 6 weeks.

[@too_tall3199]

That’s what it felt like lol no lights for a week they still cleaning up from that storm in 2020 in Iowa

[@partnerwithjee5114]

TRUCKERS PASSING THROUGH HOUSTON VIA 610 WEST LOOP STARING AT THE SKYSCRAPERS

[@swere1240]

some people call them inland hurricanes but they are very different types of storm system's a derecho is a large bowing squall line with super intense downbursts and can be imbedded with quick spin up tornado's. i went through the iowa 2020 derecho and it was insane. literally no warning i was at work in a tree cause i work for a tree service when the sirens went off. im glad i got down cause 20 minutes later that tree was blown over ontop of the customers poor shed.

[@catherine6332]

So crazy. I’ve been into meteorology since I was a kid and I only heard about derechos a few weeks ago. My mind is blown, these things are INSANE and I feel like nobody talks about them! I feel so bad for the people who had to deal with the destruction 😢

[@djbear6427]

either created or we are in unreal times

[@cawilliamsen]

One of the worst ones happened 12 years ago, and you are just hearing about it 8 months ago....

[@williammielenz3752]

Microbursts are not uncommon in urban areas.

[@Diaryofannefrankpt2]

They never existed until now. It's a Mandela effect.

[@flamingsword777]

That's true and one caused a deadly plane crash in New Orleans in 1983 when i.was a kid. As an adult, I got hit by a tornado in the neighborhood where the plane crashed due to the microburst. ​@@williammielenz3752

[@nihlifi]

We had a massive derecho in Iowa back in 2020. It crossed the entire length of the state and even moved into the next state. At it's peak, the winds were gusting up to 140mph with sustained wind speeds of 100+mph. As it was passing over us, it lasted nearly 30 minutes. The winds were so strong they caved in grain silos and bent the steel of radio towers. They are no joke.

[@melhope]

It continued through Illinois and spawned a tornado that went through my neighborhood on the north side of Chicago.

[@jbmanifestor5016]

Just experienced one last night in Tulsa. Power is still out and could be out for days for some people. It was pretty terrifying.

[@davidmcnelley8672]

That was a crazy day, thankfully my new house didn’t get ripped off it’s anchoring . It had just been placed on the pad and didn’t have the skirting on yet.

[@samwilbur6155]

We just had a Derecho in Australia on Christmas night. We're still without power and all the trees and powerlines in my area got flattened and broken in half. First time I've ever experienced something so crazy

[@Bayliss21]

We just had one in Houston. 121mph in a major city. The destruction is massive.

[@Crosbhealach]

Experienced it once in Southern Quebec in 1999. The "Lake of the Woods" Derecho made it that far. It lasted 2hrs and there was so much lightning that you could read by it

[@Trancemaster001]

Last summer's derecho in Ontario Canada traveled 998 kilometers over 9 hours 😳 the sky turned green,with extreme winds😢

[@JAKETHECANADIAN]

yeah the winds in ottawa ere like 191 km hr

[@bmxkilo]

I was in the iowa one in august 2020 and I was in a car outside in Cedar Rapids where it was reported to be the worst, 140 mph winds apparently

[@sillylilkoala]

That storm came all the way to northern Illinois, and it was so scary even then. We only got about 80mph winds by the time it reached us.

[@TOOL_MARKS]

@@sillylilkoala "Only" 80 mph winds.... That's considered 'Hurricane force'.

[@sillylilkoala]

@TOOL_MARKS I said "only" as compared to it's full strength winds it was quite lower.

[@TOOL_MARKS]

@@sillylilkoala True. I have heard of some crazy top-end wind gusts occurring during Derechos, into triple-digit MPH speeds.

[@sillylilkoala]

In August 2020 I experienced the derecho that passed through northern Illinois. It was pretty scary. That storm did the most damage in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It came a long way to us.

[@mytiawalker1599]

I was in Cedar Rapids, Iowa at that time. Somehow, my apartment and neighbor complex was spared. All the other apartments were destroyed. The majority of everything around us was destroyed. Had no electric, phone service, and couldn't go to work for a week.

[@thegraffitiplayground1325]

@@mytiawalker1599same didn’t have power for 9 days in Cedar Rapids where I was. Power lines and trees got hammered.

[@TomJonesMN]

I experienced one in May of 1998. It formed about 100 miles west of Minneapolis and it's winds exceeded 100 mph in several places. It ripped through the southern suburbs of the Twin Cities around 9 pm, hit Detroit later that night, and finally ended in the state of New York the next day.

[@ryanfallon]

I live in Sioux Falls and yes the sky was that exact shade of green! Lost a few trees in my neighborhood but didn't see a lot of house damage. It was about two and a half hours though of non-stop high speed winds and rain.

[@notthedoctor1789]

I experienced one in 1998 as a kid in upstate NY. I'd never seen anything like that as extreme weather usually comes in the form of snow there. It was the middle of the night, so the sky didn't get green, but it did look like day time outside because the lightning was so intense. It caused a ton of damage and killed people. It happened on Labor Day and school was postponed for a week. It was very scary and I thought we were gonna die (but I was also awfully scared of tornadoes even though I'd never experienced one).

[@partnerwithjee5114]

DID IT TRAVEL DOWN 2 THE TRADE CENTER

[@TomJonesMN]

That is probably the same one I experienced in May of 1998. It formed about 100 miles west of Minneapolis and it's winds exceeded 100 mph in several places. It ripped through the southern suburbs of the Twin Cities around 9 pm, hit Detroit later that night, and finally ended in the state of New York the next day.

[@notthedoctor1789]

@@partnerwithjee5114 NYC did experience a lesser version of it.

[@notthedoctor1789]

@@TomJonesMN That sounds right. We experienced winds over 100 mph and it hit us during the nighttime when people are generally asleep. There was no warning.

[@streole3121]

My town didn’t get hit by a derecho, however it got hit by something very similar to one which had all the same properties in expat for it wasn’t 259 miles wide and it was caused by a bunch of wind immediately dropping to the ground it is called a “downburst” once it started happening we got a tornado warning as well as a flash flood warning. A few trees fell on our porch, but barely damaged it. Btw, I live in Ohio

[@d3ad.4gain]

ofc you live in Ohio

[@Wichita0]

supercell?

[@GamerKaiden]

@@Wichita0not necessarily

[@socialchlamydia8533]

What your talking about sounds like a microburst my guy.

[@vangu2918]

Yep, downbursts can produce extreme winds exceeding 100 mph. The highest recorded in the city I live was 110 mph.

[@mrderpyfox9192]

I experienced the one on June, 29 2012 derecho in fort Wayne and a 91 mph wind gust was reported

[@5ish]

I got a dercho in South Ontario on May 21 2022 Canada

[@mrbeanroblox5191]

Same

[@JAKETHECANADIAN]

same

[@jamespyle777]

While living in that purple bullseye, these are common occurrences more so than tornadoes but its like the power only goes out half the time. The other half of power outages are squirrels and drivers running into utility poles.

[@lucistheband6540]

Ottawa Canada 🇨🇦 experienced one--in fact, the storm travelled through most of Ontario and Quebec on May 21, 2022. Winds varied between 75-80 MPH. I was on a highway and it was WILD. While on a storm chasing tour, I went through another one on May 12, 2022, in South Dakota!! There are lots of videos on KZbin for that Derecho.

[@smileyface81mc77]

Experienced a derecho in Illinois last year in late June, 2023. I was teaching a summer course for kindergartners at the time, and the kiddos were all very confused as to why the sky was so dark that the street lights were turning on. Must’ve been weird to them considering most of the time, when the sky is dark, they’re already at home and getting ready for bed.

[@renegard5442]

I've experienced two first hand. First was in 2008, storm popped up out of nowhere, snapped a 100 year old oak in our yard like a twig. Weird thing was that it had a super narrow band of destruction. Just 15 minutes north or south and it's like nothing ever happened. Second was the 2020 derecho. When people around here mention "the storm," they're referring to that one. It flattened half the state, you could see the damage from space. That thing had wind speeds equivalent to a category 4 hurricane, and we only had a few hours' notice before it hit.

[@DJHLX3]

There was one in Ottawa / Quebec that 12 people I think passed away from it . Was hiking near Verona and got a mini taste of it the cloud where moving fast as heck and up then it just down poured and like the trees where going crazy in an instant for like a minute then it stopped

[@PRR3750Railfan]

On June 3 2020, New Jersey and Pennsylvania took a direct hit from a Derecho. There were thousands without power for a couple weeks.

[@E4_MAFIA]

We had one here in Kansas a few weeks ago. We had intense tree damage. Our trees are massive and around 100 years old. Some people had destroyed roofs and we even had some crushed cars. We lost power for three days and had many downed power lines and snapped poles. Luckily, no fatalities or even injuries in our small town. People heeded the warnings and stayed inside.

[@JAKETHECANADIAN]

I’m from southern canada near in ontario, in 2022 during may on the 21st, there was a crazy derecho that happened and it was the strongest in the country’s history. unfortunately, 11 ppl died from it and it cost like $1b with winds of 191 km / hr

[@xploreourterra6096]

I'm from India, in 2016 in hyderabad i experienced a powerful thunderstorm that lasted throughout the night, similar to derecho But less winds i guess

[@PetiteKeyboardist]

The Labor Day storm in Syracuse in 1998. It was intense. 2 people were killed at the fair grounds. It brought down a willow tree in my yard. It was lightning more than 100 times per minute and you couldn’t even see outside. After living in Oklahoma for 5 years, that one in New York was the worst storm I had ever seen.

[@funnyday7805]

Yes Infact one that was so huge that 20 people dies it happens in Ottawa lasting an hour! Power went out for 3day- week And they are still fixing damage the winds came up to 190km an hour and formed a tornado in Montreal lasting 5 minutes It was scary But didn't hurt us RIP the 20 people who died

[@JAKETHECANADIAN]

thankfully it wasnt that much ppl who died however there was unfortunately still 11 deaths

[@trustbuster23]

I remember the lightning, as I watched one of these roll in at night. It was essentially continuous, like the clouds were electrified, bubbling and boiling with constant arcing inside them. It took down so many trees we were out of power for days. Those things are no joke, if you ever see clouds boiling with lightning, it is time to take cover, and especially get away from the trees. The kind of damage these things can do is more like a hurricane or tornado than a thunderstorm.

[@CountryItUp]

i live in brookings, just north of sioux falls. this storm was the worst one id ever experienced

[@Mayaisawesome91]

I’m into weather and this is fascinating! I didnt know these kinds of storms existed

[@kimpavfx]

you’re cute

[@briebel2684]

I don't know if it was technically a derecho, but there was a long lived storm with winds in excess of 110 mph on August 1, 1986, in Kansas, maybe Missouri and Arkansas as well. Two counties in Kansas got the worst of it, aftermath looked very hurricane-like. Totally ruined crops that summer, blew a bunch of trees, barns, metal buildings down. It was blowing a water spray through the widow seals on the north and west sides of our house. The ash trees on the east side of the house were bent over like palm trees during a hurricane. Craziest thing I've ever lived through. NWS called it an "inland hurricane" at the time.

[@d0g3br34d]

I experienced one about July of this year, it was insane the sky turned green and it was like a tornado outside

[@Bookzslayz]

The definition of Beughtiful but dangerous 😂

[@bcnewe]

It was scary as heck seeing that cloud wall chasing me home while I was driving. I barely got in the house in time. After it was over we had lost 2 trees, parts of our roof, our new foal was separated from her mother and ended up in another building, my rabbit cages blown off the barn walls. And, when driving around the surrounding towns there was damage everywhere.

[@ambrabridges2161]

When I lived in Virginia, a freak Derecho came through my area. It damaged a few buildings and knocked out the power for a couple of days. I worked third shift and was trying to sleep. I had a fan going full blast in my window and it started making an odd noise. I got up to see what was going on and noticed the wind was so strong, the fan blades were spinning backwards. Just as I turned the fan off, the transformer across the street blew out. I thought it was a tornado so I grabbed my two cats and got in the bathtub, even though we were on the second floor so it wouldn't have done any good.

[@jacelambert5696]

I experienced the Iowa Derecho storm, and it got really bad when my parents were taking a walk. It was 2 days after my birthday, and a tree fell down. What a shame:(. Luckily my parents are good, and so is my dog. Now it was just super funny seeing my parents grabbing our slip n’ slide. Lol

[@_honestly_7015]

I was in that 2020 Derecho in Des Moines. Ive never seen so many trees and branches broken in my life

[@Jozua2323]

Same. We got lucky with the power, though, not even 18 hours without

[@BethanySchwarz5678]

The storm in 2020 also uprooted an estimated 65-70% of trees in some parts of Iowa. Plus other structure damage

[@cereal_killaz1818]

I've experienced one before.... it was the one in Sioux Falls SD. It was nice just watching it.

[@rebeccacorbin1590]

As a midwesterner I can confirm green skies = tornado weather

[@justinciallella4724]

I was in Roanoke Virginia, probably 2011, I knew a storm was coming, but I figured I would have some warning by way of rain or wind. I was walking my dog, and it was very pleasant outside, then suddenly the winds went from 0 to 60 within 30 seconds. It dropped trees all over the city

[@briansmook8043]

I live in Sioux falls and that storm tore the roof off of an advanced auto parts store had trees down in every neighborhood it was intense

[@dredra7160]

I am in my 60s and I had a storm approach my house that made the pressure in the house change and the window panels were moving . By the time I was in the basement it was on top of the house and seemed to last forever. When I went outside 4 old maple trees had been knocked down a long with my garage. I was told there was no tornado just a strong wind. I really don't think anyone can identify the nature of the storm unless they were in it.

[@BenieTheDragon]

2008 derecho. Swept through the entire state of Indiana. Got 100MPH winds. Lost power for almost a week.

[@Definitemaybe0698]

I think I did once when I was 6. I was Bottineau North Dakota. The color was roughly the color as shown in the video but I also remember seeing a funnel cloud try and touch down. It was the coolest thing I ever saw in terms of meteorology.

[@AndrewKendall71]

Used to be more common in North Texas, 30-40 years ago. I remember that sky many times... the wall cloud, the yellow/green. Haven't seen them like that here since the '80s.

[@F7skillz]

I’m from Houston we just lost 4 people from out latest derecho downtown Houston still missing a lot of glass from the high rise buildings, also produced 2-3 tornados in the storm, a lot of people didn’t have power as we got our first heat wave with feel like temps from 109-111.

[@thenerdyowl]

Just had a derecho in Houston a few weeks ago, the destruction was like that after a major hurricane, a building downtown collapsed and there are blown over trees, fences, glass, everywhere! We had a tornado warning go through the entire city, and houston’s HUGE so that was crazy. We had two confirmed tornadoes form as part of it, wind speeds at one point reached 119mph (I was watching on my radar app). Already things are back to normal in most parts of town, but some parts were out of power for up to a week :/ I hope it doesn’t become a regular occurrence here, our infrastructure needs WORK

[@MattyDemello]

Im in Massachusetts. Trust me earth is cooling down. Not getting hotter. Last summer was cold. This season we're in june already and its still cold enough to see your breath at night.

[@Danielito9320]

We got a derecho on Sunday in Tulsa. We were without electricity. My bedroom window blew up and bunch of generators blowing up

[@chezaspup]

There was one in Madrid, Spain yesterday! Shocking to experience. Never heard of them before and I have lived in Spain for over 25 years now!

[@vangu2918]

Where I live in the Midwest, we get them often enough that you know they're coming before the weatherman.😂

[@lindsaym.8267]

I lived in central Ohio in 2020 with this. It was the first time I had ever seen green skies, and then later they turned red as the sun set. Spooky. Luckily there wasn't a ton of damage and we kept power, but there were downed trees everywhere.

[@stacybenjamin8309]

The sky color during a derecho can vary from greenish gray to nearly gunmetal blue. I've been caught out in at least two of them. High wind with marble size hail. And blinding rain Texas weather doesn't come with too many surprises if you pay attention to the skys.

[@cliffpaul1133]

I live in Iowa we’ve had 2 in the last several years. Just had the second a few weeks ago. The first knocked down lots of old trees and infrastructure like power poles. My place lost power for 4 days. This more recent one wasn’t as bad and so close to the last one that the damage was less severe. But there were still some tree limbs that came down and took some power lines with it a few blocks away.

[@bellbell9990]

Wow I hope everyone is okay

[@TRKPurgatos]

I'm in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia (in freakin Europe). 6 months ago we had a scary Derecho hit us. It was the most terrifying thing ever since I never expirienced such a storm.

[@KC-Mitch]

Think there was one last week in Kansas City. It was at night, so no green color, but it stretched down to OK and we had many thick branches and a few felled trees in the neighborhood. I opened the door while it was happening and swear it looked like the hurricanes I've seen living in Florida previously. It mightve been the same storm another commenter from OK is talking about (but who knows, this is one of the most intense Springtime-weather seasons that we've had in about a decade.

[@christinamann3640]

It wasn’t the first time I’d heard the word ‘derecho,’ but it was the first time I’d seen videos of one. I recall watching this and thinking, “of course - because 2020 isn’t 2020 enough.”

[@ZootyZoFo]

I went through my first one in Houston two weeks ago, it’s like a short-burst hurricane, I thought it was a downburst.

[@reginairvine3919]

Been thru several of them in Louisiana. They come out of nowhere and are quite terrifying if you're stuck outside during one. I was parked at a restaurant in my car and one came thru and it literally moved my car sideways 5 feet (I have a small car) .

[@duncanbryson1167]

Hadn't heard the term before.

[@timfool]

I lived through one. They're terrible. I looked in the backyard and all my orange leaves were fluttering around the air animated like a movie. Have you seen that storm chasing movie with Helen Hunt with the spinning cow? It was like that in my backyard on a smaller scale. The wind hits high from one direction, low from the other. Hurricane winds. Garbage cans were running down the streets one way, trees blowing like mad the other. Then, as soon as it began it was dead quiet, almost as if the wind sucked up into the sky and moved on. It did move on too about a mile at a park, ripping it to pieces and killing one I believe. It was a tornado from the storm. Wheaton, Illinois had been ripped apart pretty good too from wind damage. It tore a steeple off a church.

[@StormChaserNWS]

I experienced a derecho before in Tennessee last year. I was quickly able to tell it was a derecho right when I saw green and the shelf cloud. I tolled my friends and my cousin to get inside quickly. And it turned out it was and it blue my neighbor’s trampoline away and a few shingles on my roof flew off and a tree was reported down. And Ik it ain’t the strongest but they are dangerously powerful overall.

[@timfool]

I lived through one a few years ago in DuPage County in Illinois. It was hurricane winds coming from both directions which caused a twisting, as if a tornado was attempting to touch down. In my backyard I saw all the leaves in my yard spinning animated, like that movie with the cow. It blew about a 30 ft. tree completely down next door. Garbage cans were running down my street in one direction, with the shrubs blowing madly in the other. And in my backyard it looked magical. As soon as it began it was over, the storm ripping a park to pieces in it's path, killing one. That park was a mile from my house. Scary, but fascinating at the same time.

[@erichegrosse6874]

Wife and I got caught in one side wind and sideways rain. Car moved slowly sideways across the road. Couldn't stop it pretty interesting.

[@JuleinneRobinson1]

I experienced the one in 2020 in Indiana and we ended up getting a tornado about a mile south from where I live during my nephews birthday party.

[@landrypokemongymnastmoremi9764]

Bro. During the part of the derecho in Iowa my neighbors big pink teddy bear flew all the way down the street 😂😂😂

[@jeremiahlevoy3435]

Had one in Springfield il the other day sky was lit green like grass

[@Phantom_Newt]

June 29th, 2012 and the June 13th, 2022. I live in Ohio and my town got hit really bad by the 2012 derecho. Traffic lights were knocked down, trees were toppled and some houses were seriously damaged. My own house had some minor damage from the winds. My entire town was without power for well over 2 weeks and every grocery store had to throw out all of their perishable goods. Gas was impossible to get because of no power or people lining up for hours at any station that was able to pump gas. To top it all off, we still had that horrible heatwave (air temps were in the triple digits in most places and that's not counting the humidity) to deal with and no A/C or fans unless you were lucky enough to have a working generator. The 2022 derecho was bad, but nowhere near as bad as the 2012 derecho. We didn't lose power for more than a couple of hours in that one and only a few trees were toppled. A couple of houses did get severely damaged/destroyed by falling trees, but that was about it.

[@shannan1814]

Yo, 11 years later the same thing happened, we still cleaning up in Indiana, Indianapolis got hit pretty bad.

[@marshalltravis3217]

A fancy new name for supercell.

[@Dylan2003feb]

I have in IL. Out in the country. Trailer almost turned over, power lines were down (luckily not in driveway) and skirts were ripped off and flew away. Lost kittens in that storm too

[@KH-mk6tz]

I have experienced a derecho. I live in West Virginia so we don’t normally get crazy weather events like that. *besides flooding* but one 105 degree day turned to 75 degrees within 30 minutes. Out of no where a black cloud came flying through the sky at us. Then it’s sounded like a train and branches and trees were shooting across the landscape. Scariest moment of my life. I was outside when this happened. Luckily next to my vehicle.

[@TwoBs]

Same, WV here. Experienced one back in 2012 that flattened the whole mountaintop’s trees along with a whole other side, all going in one direction. Changed the landscape where I live forever. Old pines that had been there for over a hundred years now completely gone, giving us a whole barren valley. No electricity for 2 weeks and was trapped for a couple days in both directions due to how many trees had fallen and caused so much damage. Even a decade later we still see all the trees that had been uprooted littered all along the valley. Sounded like a band of 10 freight trains going by our house for several minutes, crazy intense winds that started to shake the windows. Was the one time I had experienced something like that living here my whole life, but I pay a lot closer to those wind advisories and warnings now with storms, that’s for sure.

[@sherrryann]

the epicenter is where we want to move/retire to 🤣😂😭

[@illydilly8140]

When I was a teen we had a derecho come through Virginia in the Appalachians, it was mind bendingly frightening. It was a fine summer day and in the course of a few minutes it was near dark outside. All of a sudden the rain came in sideways, blurring our view of the forest. All you could make out was the outline of the trees falling like dominos.

[@wanderinggypsy3203]

I was in one. Crazy. Straight winds. We actually hid in the hall closet, like we did for tornadoes.

[@sebastianszymanski8330]

Legit mine happed. June 29, 2023. Not gonna lie that scared me a bit as I was driving

[@Mbarnstein62891]

I remember that from June 29th, 2012.

[@evanmarschand9930]

Experienced one in July of 1999 called "The Boundary Waters Blowdown" in the Boundary Waters Wilderness on the Minnesota/Ontario border. Our group was due to arrive to Basecamp that day, but we ended up spending most of the day stuck and huddled up in a Hardee's with stangers after the storm suddenly hit. All of us were shook up, especially when we saw a stop sign fly by out the window. After it ended we helped with clean up efforts and clearing brush for emergency vehicles because THERE WERE GROUPS OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WILDERNESS CAMPING WHEN THE STORM HIT and some were injured. We eventually got to go on our canoe trip. Gorgeous weather, but MAN those portages were clogged with fallen trees. We spent many hours hacking and sawing, or trying to figure out a way to get our canoes around them. Still had fun, and were incredibly grateful. If it had stormed only one day after it did, we would've been out there during the madness.

[@CaseyT22]

The way she pronounces Derecho incorrectly in the beginning then says it right in the end

[@thomasmillard626]

The 2020 derecho was unreal here in iowa

[@MKCHICKENGLADIATOR]

That would be terrifying a derecho makes the sky green so it’s hard to tell the difference between a derecho and a tornado

[@robert-zj7ef]

5 hurricanes, 3 on land, 2 at sea and 1 durecho.

[@leaf2180]

Interesting to not see clips of the 2012 derecho, 2011 derecho, 2008 derecho, or the 1998 derecho. All very significant events. The 2012 derecho has been used as an example of what they can do for years.

[@tsubaki7370]

Oh I think this is what hit us not too long ago

[@somecuntxxx]

it just happened. knocked out the power for 7 hours and caused a lot of damage. 100mph.

[@Jozua2323]

I remember the August 2020 and December 2021 derechos.

[@elpilotero9370]

That happen in orlando

[@jenniferd5573]

Experienced one 2012 New Jersey. Terrifying.

[@0ptimal]

Yea i recently learned of them after a storm that some labeled a derecho marched through texas. We had 80mph wind and later on its path to Houston it was worse. Ive seen videos of them and mannnn they are gnarly, ours didnt last all that long but some go on and on with extreme and relentless winds. Yikes!

[@samuel-no8yp]

I experienced one of these last year during early summer and it was really scary! A tornado is scary but you know it’s gonna hit a consolidated area, this was like one big tornado hitting EVERYTHING!

[@robertoperez1189]

i experienced a derecho in Houston about a month ago and i lived in an apartment complex so my Neighbours lost their roof and my house was flooding with water but i live in another place now so I'm fine.

[@pizzaman4984]

Yes we actually just got hit by one last night and knocked a large tree branch down and knocked out some cable which was apparently our wifi cable or something.

[@johngoguen361]

It hit where I live,I was filming it coming everything was OK then the wind hit me,I retreated to the front of the house

[@guzuthus9999]

Had one go through maryville missouri a year ago while i was at work at 7am

[@taralynguthmiller1598]

I was in the derecho and it was super scary. So when it was the last day of school and me and my sister were watching a movie when it happened so we went to the basement and I got hurt by tripping other tin and cut myself.

[@johnknott1064]

I was driving when it hit, went from sunny to pitch black in seconds, dodging giant trees falling trying find a safe place but there wasnt any

[@The_Obertances]

On April 26 2024,We Thought We Would Not Have A Tornado.But After School,My Mom Picked Me Up, My Mom’s Phone Went Off As We Were Walking Out,So We Walked Back Into My Classroom,Then We Had To Go To My School Shelter As Wait.When We Go Home There Is Still Severe Weather.The Next Day We Decided To Go To Ramblewood (That’s A Neighborhood)There Was Bad EF3 Damage.❤😢

[@-Archangel]

The one last year in southern Canada has had 12 fatalities

[@JAKETHECANADIAN]

191 km hr gusts. I was terrified

[@taralynguthmiller1598]

I was actually by Sioux falls South South Dakota it was really scary

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I have experienced the 2020 Iowa derecho 2011 cross country derecho there were many tree branches down and rain was beating my windows like hail and I live north of Joliet Illinois