A historic December Derecho unfolded Wednesday December 15th across several states much of the central United States and Midwest. Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Oklahoma, New Mexico, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan and Missouri was affected. A Derecho is a windstorm associated with an unusually strong and fast-moving line of thunderstorms. High-wind warnings were issued from the Central and Southern High Plains to the Great Lakes, including storm warnings over the Great Lakes. The storm brought hurricane-force winds, dust storms, tornadoes, wildfires, snow squalls, and heavy rain across the middle of the country. Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses lost electric power, and roughly 100 million Americans were under some type of weather warning that day. The 15th had the most damaging wind reports 75mph+ in a day since 2004.
