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DERECHO
A line of intense, widespread, and fast-moving thunderstorms that moves across a great distance. They are characterized by damaging straight-line winds over hundreds of miles. Spanish for straight.
(Pronounced day-RAY-cho), a widespread and usually fast-moving windstorm associated with convection . Derechos include any family of downburst clusters produced by an extratropical MCS , and can produce damaging straight-line winds over areas hundreds of miles long and more than 100 miles across.
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