Meteorologists say derecho likely what hit Branson area the night of Duck Boat sinking
BRANSON MO NEWS: BRANSON, Mo. — The rare weather event to hit the Ozarks on July 19, the night the Ride the Ducks boat sank into Table Rock Lake, was a derecho, according to a preliminary report from the National Weather Service.
This particular storm system had severe, sustained winds for more than 470 miles. By definition, a derecho is a widespread, long-lived wind storm associated with a band of rapidly moving showers or thunderstorms variously known as a squall line, bow echo, or quasi-linear convective system. Although a derecho can produce destruction similar to that of a tornado, the damage typically occurs in one direction along a relatively straight swath. As a result, the term “straight-line wind damage” sometimes is used to describe derecho damage.
Weather experts say it’s a good reminder that the radar on your cell phone– doesn’t compare to listening to an expert interpret the radar.
Weather experts are getting out the word to trust the warning system because you can look at the sky and it might be bright and sunny, but what experts are seeing, compared to the lay person– might be two very different things.
“The radar they are looking at, whether it’s on the KY3 app or almost any publicly available weather app that will show radar, only shows reflectivity, and people have in their minds that if I see red, that’s bad… but that’s not always the case. It could just mean heavy rain. What they don’t see with that radar is what the wind is doing inside of that storm, or ahead of it,” said KY3 Meteorologist Brandon Beck.
He says everyone must heed the warning as soon as it goes out, regardless of what you see, or don’t see in the sky.
The last derecho to hit the Ozarks was in 2009– in Fair …
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