How to Use derecho in a Sentence

derecho

noun
  • Straight-line winds from the derecho reached speeds of 97 mph.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 15 June 2022
  • Hart said the destruction was made worse due to the width of the derecho.
    — Bill Kirkos, CNN, 21 Aug. 2020
  • By the end of the day, the derecho had traveled about 500 miles.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 5 July 2022
  • The derecho blew in from Iowa, where winds surpassed 100 mph.
    — Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas, chicagotribune.com, 11 Aug. 2020
  • In its simplest terms, a derecho is based on the principle that warm air rises and cold air falls.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 July 2021
  • Twain blew like a derecho into Paris on a Saturday as evening fell.
    — Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 5 June 2025
  • The severe line of thunderstorms may have met the criteria for a derecho.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2020
  • There's also the chance of a derecho forming across the region, forecasters warned.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 15 June 2023
  • Not all derechos are created equal and the 2012 case was at the high end of the spectrum.
    — Jeff Halverson, Washington Post, 14 May 2018
  • The million-dollar question is whether the storms will end up being classified as a derecho.
    — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 27 Feb. 2023
  • For Rush, the crisis is a repeat of the derecho in May, when her home didn’t have power for six days.
    — Dalia Faheid, CNN, 13 July 2024
  • The derecho's winds peaked at 40 meters per second, well below that threshold.
    — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2025
  • The damage this time was from a derecho, a line of intense and fast-moving windstorms marauding across the prairie.
    — Will Wright, chicagotribune.com, 15 Aug. 2020
  • Later in the evening, the storms could grow into a derecho—a fast-moving windstorm that can cause widespread damage.
    — Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 June 2025
  • Large thunderstorms or chains of them moving across a region can cause large swaths of strong wind over 60 mph, called a derecho.
    — Chris Nowotarski, The Conversation, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Last year, a derecho caused major destruction in parts of Iowa and Illinois.
    — Daniel Manzo, ABC News, 28 July 2021
  • And, of course, getting any sort of a derecho is rare in the much drier western third of the United States.
    — Chris Bianchi, The Denver Post, 7 June 2020
  • During the height of the storm, there were a few cloud-to-ground lightning strikes, but nothing crazy like the 2012 derecho.
    — Kevin Ambrose, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The senior forward had just arrived on campus in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, when a derecho blew through the town.
    — Matt Le Cren, chicagotribune.com, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Early estimates say the derecho flattened at least one-third of Iowa's crops – about 10 million acres.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2020
  • The derecho affected some 14 million crop acres, or 57% of Iowa's area planted.
    — Tom Polansek, Star Tribune, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Keeping the fridge going and the fans spinning is perhaps most important amid extreme heat, as the 2012 derecho showed.
    — Scott Dance, baltimoresun.com, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The after image shows the view from space early on May 18, after the derecho had knocked out power to large parts of Houston.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2024
  • Gensini said this derecho will go down as one of the strongest in recent history and be one of the nation's worst weather events of 2020.
    — CBS News, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Cedar Rapids has made the restoration of its tree canopy a priority since that storm, called a derecho, and will receive $6 million in funding through the new grants.
    — Scott McFettridge, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The Weather Service also confirmed a derecho in Wayne and Holmes counties.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 15 June 2022
  • The derecho’s 14-hour journey had a much larger footprint that spanned from southeast South Dakota to Ohio.
    — Chris Dolce, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 2026
  • In August 2020, a severe derecho storm moved across the Midwest just before the fall corn harvest.
    — Jennifer Kite-Powell, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The storm coincidentally fell on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the rare derecho that spawned a tornado in Rogers Park.
    — Nicole Stock, chicagotribune.com, 10 Aug. 2021
  • In 2024, the county was hit by straight line derecho winds and Hurricane Beryl in rapid succession.
    — Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 20 Sep. 2025

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