Award of Excellence
Joel Sartore National Geographic Magazine
"Waiting in a Waterfall"
Award of Excellence
Jim Reed Corbis
"Deadly Derecho"
A monstrous derecho with winds exceeding 100 miles
per hour roars over a golden wheat field as it strikes central Kansas on July
3, 2005. A derecho, pronounced day-RAY-cho, comes from the Spanish word
meaning 'straight ahead' and is created by a violent, often tornadic,
squall-line thunderstorm. This derecho killed one person within an hour of
this image and resulted in more than a million dollars in damage.
