Talk:Table Rock Lake duck boat accident

NTSB Report is out
https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/nr20200428.aspx

Worth incorporating. PvOberstein (talk) 18:31, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

Inclusion of Iowa tornado outbreak of July 2018
Both the NTSB Marine Accident Report (page 31) and the National Weather Service July 19, 2018 Table Rock Lake, Missouri Derecho (page 50) concluded the weather event that caused the boat accident was a violent and significant derecho weather event. There is no mention of the Iowa tornado outbreak mentioned in either official report.

I removed the 'Iowa tornado outbreak' content per WP:VERIFY - '''any material whose verifiability has been challenged ... must include an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the material.' Isaidnoway (talk)'' 17:53, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

In summary: On July 19, 2018, a violent derecho developed in eastern Kansas and swept through southwest Missouri causing considerable damage along its path with over 115 instances of severe weather winds or wind damage.

On July 19, 2018, a significant derecho event occurred over southern Missouri resulting in wind gusts over 70 mph over much of southwest Missouri and the Table Rock Lake region.

The severe weather that impacted Table Rock Lake on the evening of July 19 was a convective weather system called a “derecho.”

''The National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center, which monitors non-severe and severe thunderstorm threats across the contiguous United States, concluded that the derecho impacting the accident site covered 473 miles (from north-central Kansas to northern Arkansas) and lasted for 9 hours 24 minutes. Figure 14 depicts the progression of the storm system in a mosaic of edited radar images.''

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES:  Isaidnoway (talk) 17:53, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
 * 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.
 * Storm that hit Branson during duck boat sinking known as a Derecho
 * The storm front that passed through Table Rock Lake is known as a derecho, or straight line of thunderstorms.
 * A spokeswoman for Ripley Entertainment ... said in a statement that the company continues “to cooperate with all investigations into the sudden and severe storm known as a derecho that struck Table Rock Lake in July of 2018, resulting in a tragic accident.”
 * ... take to the water of Table Rock Lake in southwest Missouri just ahead of a powerful storm that pummeled the region and caused the boat to sink.
 * Before 6 p.m., the general manager of Ride the Ducks Branson “reviewed radar information … and made a self-assessment on timing of the derecho approaching.”
 * Shortly after lunchtime, a curved band of thunderstorms known as a derecho began taking shape in northern Kansas, blasting southeast with widespread 60 to 75 mph straight-line winds. It had been raging for most of the day before arriving in Branson.
 * the accident could have been avoided if the operator of the Ride the Ducks attraction had heeded weather warnings of an impending derecho
 * The 33 foot long modified, World War II-era DUKW amphibious passenger vessel, sank during what the NTSB termed a derecho (defined by NOAA as “a widespread, long-lived wind storm”)
 * The NTSB said this particular storm was later determined to be a “derecho.”