August 2020 Midwest derecho
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- Estimated economic losses rivaled hurricane landfalls due to grain storage, silos, and urban tree canopy destruction.
- Destructive wind corridors exceeded 50 miles wide in Iowa with gusts over 100 mph in places.
- The event renewed scientific discussion of forecasting upscale growth in warm-sector MCS environments.
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A progressive mesoscale convective system on August 10, 2020, produced a historic derecho across Iowa and parts of the Mid-Mississippi Valley, with swaths of EF3-equivalent wind damage through cropland and Cedar Rapids. Capsule from Wikipedia.
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