# No Derechos Reported in Past Week as Severe Weather Season Continues

Listeners, in the past week leading up to April 14, 2026, no derechos or widespread, long-lived destructive windstorms from lines of rapidly moving thunderstorms have been reported across the United States. The National Weather Service's latest Hazardous Weather Outlooks, including those for the Upper Midwest, Cascades, and western regions like northwest Colorado and Utah, highlight risks of severe thunderstorms with potential strong tornadoes in the Upper Midwest, blizzard conditions from an atmospheric river in the northern Cascades, and heavy rain with strong winds from a Kona storm in Hawaii, but none qualify as derechos. NOAA defines derechos as severe storms with strong winds covering large areas, and their recent classifications focus on older events like the powerful 2020 Iowa derecho, with no mentions of anything in the last seven days.

Current outlooks from weather.gov indicate isolated severe thunderstorms possible today in parts of the Midwest, but these lack the extensive, straight-line wind damage paths over 250 miles typical of derechos. Social media scans on platforms like X and Facebook show no viral posts or eyewitness accounts of such events; discussions center on today's forecasted thunderstorms rather than confirmed destructive windstorms. This calm period follows a quiet spring pattern so far, with forecasters watching for potential development amid unstable atmospheric conditions.

Stay prepared for severe weather by monitoring local alerts from the National Weather Service.

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