One of the hundreds of trees lost to Friday night’s derecho (courtesy of flickr user woodleywonderworks). The Washington, DC area has seen its fair share of destructive storms–we get hurricanes, ...

"Derecho" -- it's a word indelibly marked in the memory of anyone who was living in the D.C. area on June 29, 2012. That was the night an incredibly violent line of storms ripped through the area ...

WASHINGTON — A line of thunderstorms, 100 miles from tip to toe rolled through the DC Metro area on June 29, 2012 packing straight line wind gusts of 50 to 80 mph. This same ‘clump’ of storms hit ...

June 29, 2012, is a difficult day for those in and around Washington, D.C., to forget. On that day, an intense line of extremely gusty thunderstorms taught millions of people a new word: derecho. The ...

During the afternoon and evening of Friday June 29, 2012, an intense, long-lived line of thunderstorms raced eastward at nearly 60 mph from the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic coast. In its wake, these ...

Do you remember the 2012 D.C. derecho? Where were you when the storms hit on June 29? Comment here or on the WTOP Facebook page. WASHINGTON — On the evening of Friday June 29, 2012, a powerful line of ...

A decade has passed since one of the most memorable storm events in Washington weather history: the June 29, 2012, derecho. The violent, bowing storm complex — which downed thousands of trees and cut ...

On the East Coast, before June 29, 2012, few people (meteorologists excluded) had ever heard of a derecho. The sheets of rain and crushing winds that sweltering evening changed everything. As a ...