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DNR’s new “5 Years of Derecho Recovery” interactive map highlights the impact, response and recovery to the August 2020 ...
The devastation saw significant damage to structures, crops, and trees, impacting communities across the state.
Sunday will mark five years since the 2020 derecho. It damaged all 34 school buildings in the Cedar Rapids Community School ...
The Monarch Research Project, based in Marion, launched the Planting Forward initiative immediately following the 2020 ...
Electricity is something people use every day, but during the 2020 derecho 400 thousand customers were without this essential service across Iowa.
Corn across the state is a couple of days ahead of schedule, with 53% of corn acres reaching the dough stage and 9% entering ...
A derecho is a long-lived line of storms that often produces extreme wind damage, said Gino Izzi, a meteorologist at the ...
Last week, a strong storm that the National Weather Service has classified as a derecho hit portions of northwest Iowa, with ...
On August 10, 2020, a man watched as his business's roof was blown off by the powerful winds of a derecho while he sheltered ...
Counting those from this week, just 22 tornadoes have struck Iowa so far this year. That's much lower than normal. The state ...
It has now been confirmed that during the midst of Monday’s (7/28/2025) derecho in northwest Iowa — which is a line of severe ...