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Central US faces ‘particularly dangerous situation’ from potential derecho with 100-mph winds, giant hail
Nypost ^ | 05/19/2024 | Steven Yablonski, Aaron Barker

Posted on 05/19/2024 4:28:21 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The central US is bracing for what could be a potentially dangerous end to the weekend as forecasters track the threat of severe weather on Sunday, including the potential for a derecho that could sweep across portions of Kansas and Oklahoma with destructive wind gusts higher than 100 mph and baseball-sized hail.

This comes on the heels of another deadly derecho that barreled across Texas and Louisiana on Thursday, blasting the Houston metro area with winds up to 100 mph that left at least seven people dead and more than 1 million customers without power.

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KEYWORDS: central; centralus; dangerous; derecho; situation; storms; weather
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Here we go again. 😬
1 posted on 05/19/2024 4:28:21 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“derecho”. Latest fear mongering word to frighten people. It is just a big thunderstorm with lots of rain, as has been happening since forever.


2 posted on 05/19/2024 4:30:21 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Does that include wind?


3 posted on 05/19/2024 4:32:16 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

NWS and EPA’s fault.


4 posted on 05/19/2024 4:32:24 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I think they should call it a “chingaso”.


5 posted on 05/19/2024 4:34:10 PM PDT by ssapro (SSAPRO/ EXBP)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If we had more Gorebal Warning wouldn’t the hail melt?

Is there hail on Venus?

Mercury?


6 posted on 05/19/2024 4:34:25 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: ChicagoConservative27

will we see Stephanie’s Abrams amble bosom?


7 posted on 05/19/2024 4:34:29 PM PDT by al baby (I know sarcasm )
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To: ssapro

“Spanish: To strike someone. Hard. Usually in a fight, but sometimes by accident. The plural of this is chingasos.”

Learn something every day.


8 posted on 05/19/2024 4:35:43 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Better declare pre-emptive states of emergency with shelter-in-place orders


9 posted on 05/19/2024 4:36:31 PM PDT by xoxox
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I never, in all my years, heard of a derecho.


10 posted on 05/19/2024 4:37:10 PM PDT by V V Camp Enari 67-68 ( This clears up a lot of misconception)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
The central US is bracing for what could be a potentially dangerous end to the weekend as forecasters track the threat of severe weather on Sunday, including the potential for a derecho that could sweep across portions of Kansas and Oklahoma with destructive wind gusts higher than 100 mph and baseball-sized hail.

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NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center (SPC) increased the severe weather threat on Sunday and is focusing on central Kansas, where the threat of destructive wind gusts and large hail is highest.

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Because of the threat, the SPC placed nearly 570,000 people in Kansas in a Level 4 out of 5 risk on its 5-point severe thunderstorm risk scale.

Acts 2
1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

19 May 2024, Pentecost Sunday

11 posted on 05/19/2024 4:37:12 PM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

The derecho that swept through our town back in 2012 was a “little” more than that. We cleaned up trees from our property for days, and was without power for more than a week. In the city, no less.

And not a drop of rain. Just a wall of straight-line winds.


12 posted on 05/19/2024 4:42:28 PM PDT by AnglePark (My opinion is the most worthless thing I own.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

The “Latest fear mongering word,,,” “derecho”, since 1888.


13 posted on 05/19/2024 4:43:15 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: ChicagoConservative27

https://www.noaa.gov/jetstream/derecho-climo#:~:text=Although%20derechos%20are%20extremely%20rare,occur%20in%20families%20or%20groups.


14 posted on 05/19/2024 4:44:36 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau; All
Go to the map at the end of the link I just posted.

lol

15 posted on 05/19/2024 4:45:17 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...same as it ever was.


16 posted on 05/19/2024 4:51:10 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Hospitals are the most dangerous place on Earth! Dr. David Williams)
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To: ssapro

Haha


17 posted on 05/19/2024 4:56:03 PM PDT by dinodino ( Cut it down anyway. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
I feel sorry for them if this is true. Those straight line winds are very powerful. I wish that prediction becoming a reality on no one, especially if there is potential for baseball sized hail, yet another added level of deadly destruction to the mix. I pray it doesn't happen. First time I have heard of that term, derecho, though.

According to the National Weather Service (NWS) criterion, a derecho is classified as a band of storms that have winds of at least 25 m/s (50 kn) along the entire span of the storm front, maintained over a time span of at least six hours. Some studies add a requirement that no more than two or three hours separate any two successive wind reports. A more recent, more physically based definition of “derecho” proposes that the term be reserved for use with convective systems that not only contain unique radar-observed features such as bow echoes and mesovortices, but also for events that produce damage swaths at least 100 km (60 miles) wide and 650 km (400 miles) long.

18 posted on 05/19/2024 4:57:06 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Cold Heart

“derecho”, when a bomb cyclone just isn’t enough


19 posted on 05/19/2024 5:03:10 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Look out Salina, KS. There’s s strong storm just outside the city:

https://www.ventusky.com/?p=38.85;-97.79;7&l=wind-10m&t=20240520/0000

(This is wind speed)


20 posted on 05/19/2024 5:07:25 PM PDT by packagingguy
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