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Buildings also caught fire.Although tornado did not touch down outside Cummins' house, she said it certainly felt like it.
The Tri-State Tornado: The Story of America's Greatest Tornado Disaster.
The term derecho (duh-RAY'-choh) was coined in 1888, according to Ken Pryor, a research meteorologist at the Center for Satellite Applications and Research at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in College Park, Maryland.
More than 250,000 MidAmerican Energy customers, including 130,000 in the Des Moines metro area alone, lost power, said MidAmerican Energy spokesperson Tina Hoffman. Downed … Felknor, Peter S. (1992). "Then the power went out. © Nick Hanson/Special to the Register
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"You know, it's the weather," Donna Riech said. The supercell initiated very near the surface low and moved east-northeastward, faster than the low, such that the storm gradually deviated east of the low's track. They also located a 20 mi (32 km) path (apparently created within a period of about 20 minutes) from a large tornado which was likely spawned from the same supercell and was about 65 mi (105 km) east-northeast of the aforementioned path ending.
Further reading. SLIDESHOW: Severe weather damage in Eastern Iowa and surrounding areas August 10, 2020 1:28 pm Andrew Pearce Derecho , News , Top … after derecho downed trees
A stop sign hangs on by a thread after a strong thunderstorm with high winds blew through the Des Moines metro on Monday, Aug. 10. Hunter Larson moves the branches to clean the road on 8th Street after a heavy storm in the Ames area Monday, August 11, 2020, in Ames, Iowa.
A mobile office at a construction project near Ankeny Boulevard and Northwest 18th Street rolled 180 degrees during high winds in Ankeny on Monday, Aug. 10, 2020
Heavy winds from a storm on Monday, Aug. 10, 2020 knocked a tree onto a car in the Sheridan Gardens neighborhood of east Des Moines. © (Ryan Lenz/Special to the Register)
A tree in Cummins' backyard fell onto her neighbor's garage, piercing its metal roof.
Storms have sustained gusts of at least 58 mph and leave a path of damage at least 250 miles long to qualify as a derecho, according to the National Weather Service.Derechos develop in the Northern Hemisphere during warm weather and may be accompanied or preceded by violent thunderstorms. Several hundred were taken to In the end, a total of 695 were confirmed dead – 12 in Missouri, 95 in Indiana and 588 in Illinois.
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The Tri-State Tornado: The Story of America's Greatest Tornado Disaster. Curt Snook moves the branches to clean the sidewalk on 8th Street after a heavy storm in the Ames area Monday, August 11, 2020, in Ames, Iowa.
A tree was uprooted on 48th Street in Des Moines west of Polk Blvd.
Wind gusts of 106 mph were recorded in Le Grand as the storm moved east. Risk Level: Very High Winds in excess of 100 miles across Iowa on Aug. 10, 2020, split trees in half.
The severe weather downed trees causing power outages in Des Moines in this neighborhood near SW 61st Street on Aug. 8, 2020. The storm ripped through central Iowa mid-morning Monday, taking down trees and leaving at least 480,000 Iowans without power Monday afternoon, according to PowerOutage.us. 'The 1925 Tri State Tornado's devastation in Franklin County, White County, and Hamilton County, Illinois', p. 20–21 Monday she cleared her schedule for the week because she anticipated not having power.
Drivers navigate around tree branches in the street after a strong thunderstorm with high winds blew through the Des Moines metro on Monday, Aug. 10. Approximately 15,000 homes were destroyed by the Tri-State Tornado.Nine schools across three states were destroyed, in which 69 students were killed. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press. A John Deere tractor sits under a collapsed building after a derecho on Monday, August 10, 2020, near Franklin Grove, Illinois. 2020, in Urbandale.
A storm with 80 mph wind gusts knocked down trees and power lines, like this tree on a house on Polk Boulevard in Des Moines on Aug.10, 2020. Ralph Riech was already repairing the roof when a Register reporter arrived. A derecho may also spin off tornadoes. Ames, IA is a Very High Risk area for tornados. "Also in the Des Moines area Monday, at least three semis crashed on Interstate 35 and snarled traffic, according to the Iowa Department of Transportation.
At one point Interstate 35 was closed in both directions between Ames and Alleman, and Interstate 680 was closed between Cedar Rapids and Iowa City because of the severe weather, the department said.Between Des Moines and Ames, social media reports showed overturned vehicles and at least one home with severe roof damage.The fierce winds flattened corn and soybean fields around Mark Licht's home north of Ames, Iowa. The storm, a derecho, ripped through central Iowa mid-morning on Aug. 10, 2020, taking down trees and leaving at least 480,000 Iowans without power. Two blocks into his drive, a tree fell on the front end of his 2004 Chevrolet pickup.
The Forgotten Storm: The Great Tri-state Tornado of 1925.