Statewide Iowa — The storm that roared across Iowa Wednesday has been categorized as a derecho.
National Weather Service Meteorologist, Brook Hagenhoff, says it’s not exactly the same as the 2020 version.
She says the derecho this week had winds in the upper 80s — but was more spread out across the state.
There were several tornadoes with Wednesday’s storm — and Hagenhoff says the 2020 version also had them.
Hagenhoff says timing is what makes a storm a derecho when compared to the common thunderstorm.
She says you usually don’t see something like this in December.
The governor had issued disaster declarations for 49 of Iowa’s 99 counties by Thursday evening for damage done by the Wednesday storm.
