Many people may have never heard of a derecho. A derecho (pronounced similar to “deh-REY-cho”) is a widespread, long-lived wind storm that is associated with a band of rapidly moving showers or ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A complex of strong to severe thunderstorms raced across Ohio through the afternoon and evening on Tuesday. These storms brought winds over 60 mph, with some measurements over 70 mph.

Northwestern Iowa was hit by damaging winds ranging from 80 to 100 mph as a powerful storm meteorologists warned had the potential to develop into a derecho moved across the Plains. The high winds ...

A powerful band of severe storms that ripped through central Pennsylvania Tuesday evening reached a rare level of intensity, experts say. The storm, which left tens of thousands in Centre County ...

Hundreds of thousands of people had damage to their homes and businesses after a powerful derecho storm slammed Southeast ...

(This story was updated to add new information on the increased risk of severe weather in Iowa.) With one round of thunderstorms causing power outages for thousands of MidAmerican Energy customers and ...

Another day of extreme weather is unfolding in the United States on Wednesday after violent storms roared through more than a dozen states on Tuesday and turned deadly, bringing hurricane-strength ...

A year after deadly winds shattered skyscraper windows, toppled trees and caused widespread power outages across Houston, many homes still bear the marks of the derecho's destruction. The estimated ...

— -- So what's up with the U.S. weather this year, a warm winter, early droughts and a multistate "derecho" windstorm before July. Is global warming cooking our goose with extreme weather events, ...

Strong storms that brought hurricane-force winds to an area stretching from the Upper Plains to the Midwest have been preliminarily classified by the National Weather Service as a derecho, defined as ...

The estimated damage from the storm totaled over $1 billion. Data is scarce on the number of Houston-area homes still in disrepair from the 100 mph wind gusts, but according to the Center for Disaster ...