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Added GOES imagery and provided visual in the data story code
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mwallner324 authored Dec 27, 2024
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## Overview
The morning of May 12, 2022, began quietly across the Midwest, but by midday, the skies darkened as a powerful serial derecho brought hurricane-force winds exceeding 100 mph across Nebraska, South Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota, and North Dakota. This devastating weather event flattened fields of young corn and soybeans, uprooted trees, and toppled grain silos vital to local economies. With 68 reports of wind gusts over 75 mph, it set a record for a single convective complex. For rural, agriculture-dependent communities, the derecho was catastrophic, destroying crops and irrigation systems while also crippling farming infrastructure. Grain silos—critical for food storage and supply chains—were torn apart, and the economic ripples extended through local and national agricultural markets. The storm laid bare the vulnerabilities of rural America to extreme weather and majorly disrupted the livelihoods of all who depend on food sources from this region.
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Visual of the abundant lightning within the derecho as it races across Nebraska into South Dakota. (Source: [CSU/CIRA](https://satlib.cira.colostate.edu/event/northern-plains-derecho/))
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