As families along the Gulf Coast deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Laura, people in Iowa are still without power after a derecho with winds of up to 140 miles per hour hit parts of the state on ...

A powerful derecho ripped through the Midwest on Monday, with wins in one locale reaching 112 MPH. Lynn, Iowa, had a reported wind gust of 112 MPH Monday afternoon, according to the National Weather ...

DES MOINES - Iowa farmers face multiple harvest challenges in dealing with cornfields flattened by hurricane-force winds, though soybean fields appear to have weathered Monday's derecho much better, ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — August 10, 2020 saw a powerful and damaging windstorm lambast the Midwest. In killed three people in Iowa, one in Indiana, decimated crucial corn crops, and left hundreds of ...

No single thunderstorm event in modern times - not even a tornado - has wrought as much economic devastation as the Aug. 10 derecho that slammed Eastern Iowa and other parts of the Corn Belt, ...

Iowa farmers harvested a record 2.77 billion bushels of corn last year, beating a record set nearly a decade ago despite struggling with disease pressure, a derecho, record rainfall and other ...

A derecho is a large damage-producing wind event that can travel for hundreds of miles. These fast-moving bands of storms pack significant destructive winds that can rip down buildings, topple trees, ...

AccuWeather forecasters warn that derecho events — fast-moving lines of severe thunderstorms producing straight-line winds over 100 mph across paths of 500 miles or more — are expected to be more ...