Cedar Rapids Iowa Derecho..100+mph wind

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Published 2020-08-26
This storm was like a 50 mile wide tornado ranging between F1 and f3 strength. It left over 12 counties in ruins. please "like" the video. I intend on bringing more similar content as the season permits
All Comments (21)
  • @ryanclayson2742
    Yea, telling ya it's not a tornado. Not every strong wind is a tornado. Everything falling in the same direction, sustained gusts for that long is pretty common in a derecho/straight line wind event.
  • @leaf2180
    Tornadoes don't last in one area for 10-15 minutes. Everything is falling in a single direction, which are straight-line winds. Also, not sure about what happened after the video or storm. But during the video, not a single one of those trees shown is lost. All of them can make an easy recovery.
  • @TheoneGodfather
    A storm hit our neighborhood about thirty years ago with straight line winds over 100 mph. It was the wildest storm I’ve ever been through. Tore the neighborhood up bad. Kooky thing I learned later is it only takes winds of seventy miles per hour for a storm to be classified as a hurricane, something like that. I still remember standing on our porch and watching the rain go horizontal while the sky flashed different colors and hearing the trees cracking and falling.
  • @Matt-hi7ey
    Nope.no tornado just a strong ass derecho
  • @jackrudden5970
    These were straitline winds. Also, only around 80mph. 100mph would have resulted in partial removal of roofs, complete defoliation of trees with numerous if not all trees being knocked down. Which didn’t happen here. Still, 80mph winds are very dangerous.
  • @Driver_Pneuma
    this was not a tornado. this was straight line winds that impacted a wide area. thus, defining it as a derecho.
  • @MonthlyFails
    Hello Eric O'Dwyer, is it possible to contact you regarding this video (i.e. via email)? We would be interested to discuss a license to use this video if this is generally possible to discuss? :) Cheers, Felix