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A derecho sweeps across the eastern United States, leaving at least 22 people dead and millions without power.

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Derecho

Widespread, long-lived, straight-line wind storm

A derecho is a widespread, long-lived, straight-line wind storm that is associated with a fast-moving complex of severe thunderstorms referred to as a mesoscale convective system.
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June 2012 North American derecho

Weather event

The June 2012 Mid-Atlantic and Midwest derecho was one of the most destructive fast-moving severe thunderstorm complexes in North American history. The progressive derecho tracked across a large section of the Midwestern United States and across the central Appalachians into the…
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