(WLUK) -- When severe weather strikes, the biggest threat isn’t always a tornado. Some of the most destructive storms come from straight-line winds, and when those winds are driven by a long-lived ...

A derecho is a large damage-producing wind event that can travel for hundreds of miles. These fast-moving bands of storms pack significant destructive winds that can rip down buildings, topple trees, ...

The “derecho” wind storms of late June and early July were the third-most expensive natural disaster in Ohio in 38 years. Only the tornado outbreak in Xenia in 1974 and the hurricane-borne winds of ...