DERECHO WITH 80-100 MPH WINDS IN NORTHERN ILLINOIS | Aug 10th, 2020
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- A long-lived MCS/bow echo, or derecho produced widespread significant wind damage from Iowa to northern Illinois on August 10th. I intercept the storm along Hwy 47 near Morris, Illinois and then filmed damage along Hwy 47 from Yorkville to Dwight.
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Those who haven't experienced a hurricane, this is pretty close. But imagine these winds lasting for 8 hours or more....
For three days cat 5 Dorian sat on us (Freeport, Bahamas)
i live IN perth AUSTRALIA that weather is typical weather in winter we had a polar cyclone in MAY where the wind was 140 kmh or 85 miles a hour for 10 hours straight the roar was deafening and the next day the place looked like it had been put threw a blender trees down everywhere
King Bain Glad you’re ok prayers for the people of the Bahamas still dealing with the aftermath.
As a Floridian I can confirm.
We also had no warning this type of storm was coming. I woke up with a severe weather alert and didn’t expect much, but boy was I wrong 😂
me not even know what a derecho was until today 👁👄👁
It messed everything up. Im in iowa where our winds hit 112mph.
And I ooop
@@millymill1980 And I am still without power lol
@@monke5825 Cell phone?...
I found out what they were in 2012 when I got caught in one in Maryland
it was terrifying
I never heard of this until today.
Me neither! What the heck..
I have because I've been through one. I lost power for 16 hours and some people lost power for almost a week.
Joe where did you experience it. I’m from Nashville we had one back in May.
@@CarsonDugger1997 Twin Cities area of Minnesota. June 2013.
Thats because it happened the same day idiot
Well...if you wanna get rid of all the bugs...this is one way.
They're all on the east coast now!
@@AndrewPritchard 🤣
@@AndrewPritchard and you can have them back lol! Tropical storm Isaias just blew through here last week, we also had tornados come through the area with that storm. I grew up in central Illinois and never saw anything like that. Tornados yes, but a derecho no. That's nuts!
naw tbh i stay in an area with a lot of trees so bugs were just everywhere the next day wasps dragon flies frogs and all😭
whhatt lolz
Thanks 2020, just what the midwest needed, flat corn.
Just go out there with some sticks and tape, stand the stalks back up, and splint them. Most would survive.
@@josephastier7421 lol do you realize how much corn there is on the ground? A million man army couldn't get that done before harvest let alone in time to keep the plants from dying.
@@josephastier7421 define "most would survive"
Edit: also where im at its been dry so long they started drying out so they like actually snapped off and laid down
@@theginger1187 I am joking.
@@josephastier7421 ok sorry, you never know how stupid people can be online. I wouldnt doubt someone out there would think splints could help farmers lol
This was the angriest storm we’ve ever had
Very grateful for advance warnings via NOAA Weather radio, our excellent TV weather coverage, and warning sirens. It was a beautiful day, but hot and humid. Once dark clouds appeared on the horizon, it only took about 10 minutes before the wind hit hard, with no buildup at all, just WHAM! My building shuddered and shook, the floors and walls were moving. The air pressure was so strange, I felt like I couldn't breathe. Power went out. NOAA Weather station went out! My battery-powered weather radio was useless at that point. Cell phone service out. The worst winds lasted about 45 minutes here. Scary to be so isolated in such a terrible storm. My heart goes out to the people of Cedar Rapids and Marion, IA, who got the worst of the storm. They have problems with roads blocked, no electricity, no fuel at most stations, no phone or internet, no shelters, no ice, food spoiled. No power to refrigerate online and other meds, no power to charge breathing aids or wheelchairs. The rest of the country seems blind to what has happened here. IOWA COULD USE SOME HELP!
It hit us hard in SW MI around 6:15 pm. I knew we were in for a bad storm, as we were warned 2 hours in advance of this storm. The severe storm we had last weekend came with no warning until after the storm hit.
.. IMAGINE, IF YOU CAN, HOW DIFFICULT IS WAS FOR BIRDS TO SURVIVE THAT STORM .. GOD-BLESS THEM ..
I am in a suburb north of there and winds were blowing at the front of my home, I feed birds in back and they were all hunkered down out of the wind on my deck
I found a mother robin sitting on one of her babies on the ground under her nest. Another baby laid dead about 10 feet away. I was able to get a ladder and return the babe to the nest. Mom and dad watched me the whole time. I saw her in the nest later on Tuesday.. Made my day to save a life but I can't imagine where the birds and other animals find shelter in storms like these..
I always think the same thing ❤️😞
My mom has assured the birds know the storm is coming & take shelter under trees close to the trunk...
But still...
Yeah because birds stick around to see what happens. Birds all can sense and are miles away
Birds arent unaware of the weather. If anyone knows a storm is coming it's the birds. The air is their home..
All jokes aside, this was a brutal storm, I was in it.
what jokes?
@@bing4126
You are late to the party.
Same just finally got power back today 😓
Omg
This storm might go to PA that where I live
I was at my childhood home when this storm slammed us - me, my mother, and my sister. It was... well, intense. Power went out when a tree came down not only on power lines, but a pole holding the lines as well - which was hilarious, because when my father called the company to report the full extent of the damage, the robot told him to press buttons 1-3 for tree-caused damage, broken pole, or a line down, without an "all of the above" option. 😆 It was only after he had come home that we learned power lines that could be live were laying on the ground at the mouth of the driveway, so no one was leaving for a while. It wasn't until nearly noon the next day that the electricity was restored.
Our situation could have been worse, as a tree line full of tall specimens - and on a slant - a mere 20 feet away from the house took the brunt of the wind, and any of them could have come down on the house.
Great firsthand footage of a Derecho. Looks like hurricane force winds. Thank you. Thumbs Up.
Right AS IT HIT my axle broke in my car stranding me on the side of the road in Huntley IL. That was terrifying!
Damn that would be scary for sure.
xPositivityx we probably had around 50-60 mph winds. I was worried about the telephone and power lines since I was right underneath them.
The storm started, it was pouring and wind was howling. I got stuck at a red light in the derecho. Got the green, floored it to get home to my dogs to make sure they were okay. My tire went through the water and skidded and my axle just snapped. Had enough inertia to coast to the side of the road.
Holy shit. So glad you made it okay.
xPositivityx Wait...you actually believe a cell tower is causing things to happen? Did 4G cause things to happen? Do you have proof that a cellular tower is causing disasters?
@xPositivityx I've never looked into who are behind the storms but I know some storms are manufactured
I was stuck on the highway between Iowa and Illinois in this. Tree branches flying everywhere semi trucks flipped over everywhere and it sounded like a train was inside my car. It was throwing me all over in the car and the road and we were going 20 mph. Trees down. Power lines down and wires wrapped around trees electricity out for days. It was unbelievable. And I couldn’t believe when I saw all the corn fields FLAT TO THE GROUND
No corn is the worst part.
Oklahomans need corn, sorry.
The hwy between would be the bridge. As bad as it was on the ground, I bet it was worse with the bridge rockin' and rollin'.
How the heck did a storm like this flip over a semi
@@emmi5815 that was the plan
having been caught by a Derecho 8 years ago here in VA mountains, I can attest to how scary these things are. Ours came out of nowhere too. No warning from weather service. It was nice one minute, then the lights dimmed inside and it was just on us. Some people lost power for 2 weeks.
I saw some of that damage over near Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Trees were broken off all over the place and I counted at least 10 trucks on the 380 that were put on their sides!
No way! I was looking at the radar and saw that this monster was pounding Illinois all the way to Chicago, and I was genuinely worried for everybody's safety, because it was moving fast. It's pretty neat to see it in real life after the fact
We have vids of my town on here about that storm it was insane
This was a scary storm man in Iowa Cedar Rapids I remember seeing a huge cloud approaching it was almost pitch black and then it started to get really really windy and me and my sister grabbed our cats and went to the basement you could just hear the wind whistling outside. It was really bad power lines are still down and trees are everywhere. I hope everyone who had to go through this is ok and doing well.
Think about what winter will look like this year, might be setting a lot of records.
DOOONT
DONT YOU DARE CURSE IT
DONT GUVE 2020 MORE IDEAS
well so far ive only gotten 3 inches of snow this winter
Thanks for sharing this! I was watching this storm all day and warning fam/friends.
This was wild today.
It sure was
@@gracemccloskey4500 You know a Wyatt McClosky from McClosky farms down in Fair Oaks
“OMG, get off the roof” 🙃😂😂😂
"OMG WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO"
I'm lucky to have power, half the town doesn't. We have trees down everywhere, downed power lines- very nasty storm. One we will remember.
I will also remember my grandparents went through the storm
I didn’t have power :(
Kaden Struik ME TOO
I was driving in ford county in the middle of that storm overall very unsettling
Shoutout to generators, power lines, and com-ed for being true heroes during this
Again, great photography and excellent narration. Terrific storm, very impressive, thank you.
All of those trees that were snapped, but that small one stood like a champ at 4:56!
I live in Rockford. There was an impressive velocity signature in eastern Rockford
Live in Ohio and got the weakening remnants of this storm. Wind was still at like 50-60mph even hundreds of miles and hours later.
I'm glad you were safe! Good video. Informative and to the point.
I work for a major retailer across the US and we had stores directly affected by the Derecho, which I'd never heard of in my life. One store in IA had the whole front door system, auto doors with 2-3 windows from ceiling to ground on either side, blown inward (like laying inside the store)...and the back wall was separated from the building at the top. Those were some mighty forceful winds to do that kind of damage.
I'm in Moline and this storm was INSANE. had a tree down in the middle of the street next to my house and people were driving through it. And a friend of mine had a tree fall on his house.
But did he died?
@@traviseastwood no his family is fine. The tree didn't hit his house as hard as it did the little old lady's house next to him. Only some roof damage.
@@GatorBaby06 dang
Thank you so much!
Great footage!
Fellow Hwy 47 resident here. About 60 miles north, still got hit by this beast of a storm. Local park looked like it went through a wood chipper and the playground there was shredded as well.
Urbana Fairlawn Village many trees down. In seconds. Heartbreaking. Fascinating. Thx for this.
I saw that! Hate to see it. Not far from my house!
Thank you for posting this.
Well done, thank you.
Can’t believe it, this was our first derecho and we just got phone service back, but for how long till power is back I’ll never know
national tech assigned to iowa here. Power is slowly coming back to iowa, however towns such as cedar rapids wont see any major restoration for 4 days. some areas may take up to two weeks. I would recommend locking down your house and finding shelter with family or friends until then.
Mr Z my My Sister Betsy Is Mrs V ,Actually W-V . Any how she lives in Kane county Due North up Rt 47 where this video was Filmed . They got their Power Back yesterday . Tornado Sirens for Her , They hunkered Down in The Basement .
@Coblex Coblex yes it looked Bad on the Video . Back in the 90s a Down burst hit , they called it a Derecho . I live in Western , N.Y it was a quick powerful Wind , it shook the house and was Gone . The 2nd one was called the Route 31 STORM and it went along Distance and killed two people at the State Fair in Syracuse . I missed that one because I was up at camp in the Adk Mtns , but I didnt miss the Damage . My Brother lived off rt 31 in Wayne county and i drove out 31 to his home . The Damage was something allthe steel light poles in a Shopping ctr were bent over In Macedon . Tractor trailer had been flipped and a couple buildings looked like a giant machete had sliced off the Top Floor . seeing the aftermath sticks with you . I talked to Mrs V in the phone tonight .
We had a storm like this in 1980 in the Midwest. It took over a month for all phone and powerlines to be restored in SW MI after that storm.
Incredible footage
Wow! Glad you’re okay. I’m from Florida and indeed, that looks like a landlocked hurricane.
I'm so scared just watching this 😭you are so brave, be safe and thanks for the vid!!
I followed it from earlier. Having experienced one before while doing an outside show I readied my home for the worst and waited for the show.Damn thing petered out about 30 miles west of me. Little wind, moderate rain when it came through.
Good job. I'm in lake county we had same kind of wind and rain. but we had tornado sirens going off for about 20 min straight. Just like you pointed out after it hit and left the wind was still very strong. That was a very intense storm for us up in NorthEast Illinois.
One minute it was a light breeze... then black sky... and BAM... full force winds. Afterwards it looked like a tornado went through the neighborhood. I was in the Peninsula area of Iowa City.
A "hurricane" on land!!!
Andrew, what great footage you've caught. The background music made the video even more emotive. Especially that poor woman at the end. I really felt for her. First video of yours I've seen but definitely not the last! Subscribed! 👍
Thank you for subscribing!
Kudos to whoever installed the roof on that house! And built that shed!
this is much stronger than what they experienced with that Isias TS that hit NC.
Very good and very professional
Use to watch Kelly Williams
Keep up good job
It starts as a perfectly formed supercell but then it morphed into something completely unique. Sponsored by Covid.
you litterally couldn't escape this storm
unless you simply drove away...
Alexander Haynes yes and no it was long and was moving itself at 80mph so even driving on the highway you couldn’t
Some couldn't escape and some climbed on their roofs 😶
@@thisismyname1888 huh? Wym they climbed on the roof ?
@@rissaann19100 lol in the beginning he said "get off the roof" before the storm got there. People are dumb.
Incredible power. It is just like a strong category 1 hurricane
I live in Chicago now moved here from Yorkville. Whole time watching I was like I wonder where this is farm looks familiar. 😵
All 6 minutes I was going wooow....wooow...woooooow what AWESOME footage! Glad you are safe. Man what GREAT epic footage you get there! I am a sky chaser and wanted some footage of my own of this that rolled in and I pussied out at the last minute. Lol I had camera set up and as I saw it begin to intensity I was like, fangit ts not worth it! And grabbed the dog and flew into the basement like "ahhh storm-1 me-0"😡😆
I figured better be safe then sorry, I've survived tornadoes hitting my apartment in AZ, and I was not about to do THAT again!
Again THANK YOU for this footage! God bless
yup this was a fun one. rode a 24 foot enclosed trailer like a bull. stuck outside on a job site when we got hit out of nowhere, i couldnt help the "get off the roof..." part. welcome to the midwest
That’s insane!!! Stay safe !! Amazing footageB
In my immediate neighborhood 25 miles west of Chicago, it was windy with moderate rain, but no major damage. I watched on the radar as a little gap of milder weather passed over us. Just a mile south of us, a tornado touched down briefly, uprooting trees and knocking down a church steeple. We lost power for a day, and internet for a day after that (Horrors!) but we were very lucky.
LOL i love how derecho is the new word of the month. Can't wait to hear the word of the month in September
These derecho's happen every couple of years. Takes northwesterly flow aloft. Storms develop, and are pushed SE into warm and humid air. The super high surface dewpoints and instability allow the storms to blast southeastward..and they will continue to develop/propagate in that direction until the atmosphere becomes more stable. Northwesterly winds aloft are generally stronger, and the combination of strong jet and extreme instability is pretty impressive. I taught severe weather forecasting for many years..and I live near St. Louis. Pretty impressive line, even this far south.
Indeed
Fantastic vidéo!
Looks like a hurricane to me......
this is some fire quality i have been looking for a youtuber that films this typa stuff
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wow incredible weather
......and our flag was still there!! God Bless America!
it litteraly fizzled out right before it hit me
Jeezus!!! Thats truly insane!!!
I live in Illinois, it was crazy when they sounded the sirens 30 mins before the storm came
Just as it was coming into ohio I could see it from the other end of Ohio that's how big it was!
NWS Radar did show some Tornadic activity especially at the main center of the Derecho as it moved through Upper Illinois. I believe there were some spin-ups throughout the frontal boundaries.
I was driving back to ISU for school yesterday and was trying to beat the storm when all of a sudden as I crossed the bridge by Peru Illinois, I hit with the hardest winds I’ve ever seen in my entire life...blinding rain so I pulled over to a Loves gas station in Oglesby and people were taking shelter there
I'm betting if that gas station was hit directly, it would not be a good shelter.
do you know a Mason Orr? i heard he’s a huge douche
I know where that is I live relatively close there it was bad
@@mrsringbean2925 I know a couple douchebags myself.....in Illinois.....but damn is that a real name!??!?!?😂
hard core bro.
Was coming from Washington to Arkansas and my family stopped in onowa to sleep. My dad came walked our dogs in the early morning and he made us get up at like 6:30. Our class A RV was nearly tipped by the wind 5-6 times and we were on the leading edge.
It was a good thing that my area only had a couple trees knocked down and the power went out . I am so relieved that my family was safe . A lucky thing was the power stopped 4:00pm and started agan at 4:00 am . I pray that everyone was okay during the tornado
Grew up in St. Petersburg FL. I've seen these scenes and yes looks like a landocaine.
My street on one side has electric and the other side doesn't. Many people still have no electricity and what a hell of a storm. When I saw your video and seen the area you were videotaping I thought I knew that area. I'm in Joliet.
This was absolutely terrifying being home alone.... 1/10 do not recommend LOL
Awww..🙄
CurtPyro 15 hater
I bet it did make it scary. I sent text to all my family it was coming there way. I was in my work building not at home since I am an essential. That at least helped me a little.
4:33. I think a lot of them look like Bradford Pear trees. They are often planted along city streets because of their white blossoms in the spring. They don't do well in wind storms. A lot of them got split in SW MI during this derecho, which had gusts of up to 80 mph. It stayed windy for a long time after the initial storm passed as well in SW MI.
Definitely the worst we have seen in our small town In Iowa the 20+ yrs i have been here. Trees down everywhere. Also north part of town significantly more damage roofs blown off, and a few trees twisted blown down into the wind.
From what I heard this might’ve been one of the worst derechos of all time.
Climate change: bruh
There was a derecho in Canada that produced 140+ mph wind gusts I believe back in the 90s
Yea prob.
It was exceptional but far from the worst. These things have been known to deliver straight-line winds equal to the core of a category 4 hurricane.
We have areas of Cedar Rapids that still dont have power smh.
I live in Yorkville, I was in Utica at Matthiessen Park before the storm hit though. Luckily a park employee warned us about a storm coming. I did not expect it to be a derecho. Driving in this was a nightmare though. Luckily we stayed safe.
Birds, wildlife, stray animals, and the homeless I can't even imagine 💔
I was on the news, this horrible monster of a storm slammed directly into us, our about 80ft tree got uprooted and torn from our backyard and landed into another's diagonal away from us, our trampoline got blew into a fairly skinny tree and wrapped around it. I live in Des Moines Iowa. You can see
Us on their Facebook page, my friend, (I'm 11) Was interviewed on kcci channel 8 des moines. His name is Andrew Williams, you'll see our house in the back round. Its brick
With vines. See if you can find our experience.
In South DuPage County the storm front hit with about 60 mph winds and hard rain with a little nickel sized hail. After that it was pretty much a nothing burger where I'm at.
I'm a HAM radio operator and NWS trained so at least my wind speed estimate is close to accurate. I walked outside about 5 minutes before it started to rain and the front had signature small rotations and updrafts. Very little SCUD but some.
Glad it petered out before it hit central Indiana. We only caught 40-50mph gust and very short-lived. de NV6R.
@@johndeeregreen4592 QSO de KC9AOP
Ah, so you're the guy I've been listening to on my Uniden. Hi! What freq are you?
@@kc9aop What does that mean?
Nice to see more HAMs out there. I’m not one but my dad and sister are! Y’all be safe!
I live in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, which was practically destroyed. The winds were well over 100+ mph and when they started, I honestly thought I was in the middle of a tornado. I had never heard of a landlocked hurricane, also known as a derecho, but I seriously hope to never see one again.
My hometown is right next to Yorkville!
I was walking 6 blocks to my moms shop in Princeton when it hit us. I was half a block away from the shop and it just went dark, started pouring and the tornado sirens went off. That half a block was the scariest minute of my life! The wind was nearly knocking me over and I'm not a tiny guy either! It was so beautiful when I left my place and in the 5 minutes it takes to get to my moms shop, it had gone to scary so fast!
I thought about that. What if I was walking into town when this hit? I would probably just bang on a strangers door lol. The wind blew the back door to our apartment open and it took me and my fiance to push it closed.
@@thisismyname1888 my mom had just gone out to roll up her car windows and moved it from around the corner to in front of the shop right as I was getting there. She saw me and waited inside the door right as the wind picked up. It took her pushing from inside and me pulling out to open it so I could get in! Then roughly 15 minutes later the tree that she was originally parked by fell right where she was parked, so it was a miracle that she moved it when she did!
You two are lucky ducks! I'm kind of surprised more people weren't killed in this storm with the little noticed most of us were given. I don't have a tv, so when the sirens went off here and skies looked fine, I was like, "Huh, weird." 20 minutes later shit was hitting the fan.
@@thisismyname1888 I looked at the weather forecast before leaving. It said chance of rain 60%. That's all the warning I had prior to it hitting lol!
Thanks for the cool content my friend. Be safe out there.. if I can stick my vehicle facing a cornfield into the Storm I would. But I live in a suburban neighborhood with two hundred-year-old trees where I live. terror!! ⛈️
I live in Homer Glen. It was nothing for us. We literally got maybe 20mph winds at one point, and some decent rain. Crazy how different areas got hit like this while we didn't get anything.
@Tim Van Hoeck Yup. Zero issues or down branches in my area. But a 2 miles away there was some damage. Looks like I was spared from it.
i was in the one back in 2012. im in the ohio valley. those storms are scary for sure.. the afternath is crazy.
I am 52 years old and I have never heard about a deracho till last year !!
There's a first time for everything! The term has existed since 1888.
It hit here in Iowa as well and it was so scary
Dang for a second I thought you were the lead singer of Fun haha. Great video.
Hmmm, looks like a pleasant day for a stroll.
Part of it broke off into Kentucky and got around 3/4 strength of it. Insane lightning with it too.
We got this exact storm in Iowa it moved from the west side of Iowa all the way to Illinois!
Just got my power back from this storm, 7 days with out it
I was lucky. I was without power for 2 days in SW MI, but many areas around Benton Harbor didn't get theirs back for about 4 or 5 days. The storm was nowhere near as strong as it was in Iowa, but was still blowing at 80-85 mph when it hit Berrien Co. MI.
Hi Andrew--first time on your channel! I live on the IL/Wisconsin border, Lake County, and this storm was, what I believe, to be the worst thus far this year--lots of damage! I think my weather radio said Hebron had tornadic activity. On a side note, you look alot like Mark Wahlberg (that's a compliment)
I live on border as well we had sirens going off for 20 min.
Oh man these wind events that are rare are popping off heavy here in 2020
2020 has been a wild one to say the least and we still have 4 months left.
Michael Hoang I still have Iowa Tsunami, 1/2 of FL disappears, & old faithful dries up on my bingo card - I might win 🤔😏😉
Live 8 miles from the highest recorded wind speed (112 in Midway, IA) right next to Cedar Rapids. Many I know are still without electricity and have major house damage (trees in houses, roofs down to rafters, etc) but my family was fortunate enough to get electricity early with minor roof damage, siding torn off. Did have a neighbors trampoline fly and break my bedroom window though.
Ugh, it was BAD in Iowa. Real bad.
But through it all I see old glory flying high. America!!!
Is the speedway at the Grundy fairgrounds ok?
I think it was back in June 2012 When one of those storms hit the South Jersey Shore area and knocked down trees for miles and because of that power was out for over a week, people really suffered from heat and humidity and food spoiling it was horrible.