File:2020augderecho-WMT-tower-Marion-IA.jpg

Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 240 pixels | 640 × 480 pixels | 1,024 × 768 pixels | 1,280 × 960 pixels.

Original file (1,280 × 960 pixels, file size: 1.05 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below.
Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help.

Summary

Description2020augderecho-WMT-tower-Marion-IA.jpg	English: Collapsed radio tower bent and toppled to the ground by extreme winds from the w:August 2020 Midwest derecho. Tower of local radio station w:WMT (AM) north of w:Marion, Iowa. NWS estimates winds around 130 mph (210 km/h; 58 m/s) caused this particular damage.
Date	18 August 2020
Source	National Weather Service (Quad Cities Office) - https://www.weather.gov/dvn/summary_081020
Author	NWS Storm Survey

Licensing

This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by the National Weather Service (NWS), including its name from 1870–1970, the United States Weather Bureau (USWB).

This includes the sub-branches of the National Weather Service:

The Climate Prediction Center (CPC), including its name from 1978–1995, the Climate Analysis Center (CAC)
The National Hurricane Center (NHC), including its name from 1950–1965, the Miami Hurricane Warning Office (HWO)
The National Tsunami Warning Center (NTWC) & Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC)
The Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC)
The Storm Prediction Center (SPC), including its name from 1952–1966, the Severe Local Storms Unit (SELS), and its name from 1966–1995, the National Severe Storms Forecast Center (NSSFC)
The Weather Prediction Center (WPC), including its name from 1955–1995, the National Weather Analysis Center, and its name from 1995–2013, the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (HPC)

As a file created by an employee of the NWS (formerly USWB) in the course of their official duties, whether hosted

on weather.gov
on an NWS sub-branch website including: cpc.ncep.noaa.gov, nhc.noaa.gov, swpc.noaa.gov, spc.noaa.gov, tsunami.gov, wpc.ncep.noaa.gov
on an NWS or sub-branch social media channel (such as Facebook, X or YouTube)
elsewhere (for example, an ArcGIS StoryMap on storymaps.arcgis.com)
in Monthly Weather Review (MWR) 1873–1973, currently hosted on the American Meteorological Society's website (journals.ametsoc.org)

this work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code.

Warnings:

(Click here to view)

Use of the NWS name ("National Weather Service") and/or visual identifier are protected under trademark law and may not be used without permission from the NWS. NWS disclaimer
NWS websites host a large number of files created by members of the public or other third parties. These are not necessarily in the public domain.
Third parties producing copyrighted works consisting predominantly of the material appearing in NWS webpages must provide notice with such work(s) identifying the NWS material incorporated and stating that such material is not subject to copyright protection.17 U.S.C. § 403 NWS disclaimer
Monthly Weather Review was created and published solely by the USWB/NWS until the end of 1973. Starting in 1976, the journal was published, under copyright, by the American Meteorological Society. Between 1974–1975, the journal was published, without a copyright notice, and is still in the public domain under {{PD-US-no-notice}}.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	10:23, 21 August 2020		1,280 × 960 (1.05 MB)	Gwennie-nyan	Uploaded a work by NWS Storm Survey from National Weather Service (Quad Cities Office) - https://www.weather.gov/dvn/summary_081020 with UploadWizard

File usage

The following 2 pages use this file:

File:2020augderecho-WMT-tower-Marion-IA.jpg

Summary

Licensing

Captions

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

structural failure

wind damage

property damage

transmitter mast

August 2020 Midwest derecho

Marion

inception

18 August 2020

media type

image/jpeg

checksum

4ba1cd7bf48ff0fea1469cee4ada90012368601e

data size

1,096,561 byte

height

960 pixel

width

1,280 pixel

File history

File usage