All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 22 2015 // The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) this morning declared a catastrophe for storm-affected parts of New South Wales [NSW], in particular the Central Coast, Hunter, Greater Sydney Metropolitan and Illawarra regions.The...
Apr 20 2015 // It’s not often you find an area of agreement between the property/casualty insurance industry and consumer advocacy organizations, but a Texas bill addressing the state’s coastal windstorm insurance pool has...
Apr 20 2015 // Southern states might look to the Pacific for an idea of what the future holds for tornado activity.The waters of the Pacific Ocean may provide some clues about tornadoes in the South, according to a paper in the journal...
Apr 10 2015 // As tornado season begins in the Tennessee Valley, the National Weather Service is implementing a warning system designed to give more specific information on approaching storms.Piloted last year in the Midwest, the...
Apr 10 2015 // One person was reported killed and several others injured when a large tornado swept through Northern Illinois on April 9.The Illinois towns of Fairdale, Rochelle and Kirkland sustained major damage. Fairdale, a community...
Apr 10 2015 // RMS, the Newark, Calif.-based catastrophe risk management firm, has released updated RMS Europe windstorm models and North Atlantic hurricane models.The 15.0 RMS Europe Windstorm Models’ hazard and vulnerability...
Apr 9 2015 // States in the Midwest were slammed on Wednesday by violent storms that produced high winds, hail and tornadoes. The severe weather is expected to continue today.Large and destructive hail have caused the most damage so...
Apr 9 2015 // Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development team, released the latest edition of its monthly Global Catastrophe Recap report, which reviews the natural disaster events that occurred worldwide...
Apr 8 2015 // It’s again the time of year when a mix of cool air from Canada, warm moist air from the Gulf of Mexico and a touch of energy off the Pacific can all wrap together to unleash storms across the U.S. Midwest and...
Apr 6 2015 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) announced that a carrier participating in its depopulation program has signaled an interest in taking over around 60,000 TWIA policies.TWIA is the property insurer of last...
Apr 6 2015 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John D. Doak said more than 1,100 homeowners insurance claims had been filed by the day after severe weather crossed the state in late March, leaving one dead and many injured in the wake of...
Apr 2 2015 // As the people of New Orleans, New Jersey and New York know all too well, much of the death and damage caused by hurricanes isn’t from the wind. It’s from the storm surge.When the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season...
Apr 1 2015 // The death toll from tornadoes and strong storms last week in Oklahoma has risen to four people.The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner had earlier said that one person died when the severe weather struck a mobile home...
Mar 26 2015 // Oklahoma Attorney General Pruitt announced that Oklahoma’s Emergency Price Stabilization Act is now in effect for 25 Oklahoma counties after Gov. Mary Fallin declared a state of emergency due to tornadoes, severe...
Mar 25 2015 // While there has been a curious lack of tornadoes throughout the country’s midsection, that may soon change, according to federal weather forecasters.A cold front approaching Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri is...
Mar 24 2015 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) announced that a carrier participating in its depopulation program has signaled an interest in around 60,000 policies that currently are on TWIA’s books.TWIA is the...
Mar 24 2015 // The same weather pattern that made the West warm and dry and the Northeast cold and snowy has contributed to keeping the rest of the U.S. relatively free of tornadoes so far this year.In the first two months of 2015, about...
Mar 19 2015 // A severe solar storm smacked Earth with a surprisingly big geomagnetic jolt Tuesday, potentially affecting power grids and GPS tracking while pushing the colorful northern lights farther south, federal forecasters said.So...
Mar 17 2015 // The waters of the Pacific Ocean may provide some clues on what kind of tornado season will erupt across the southern U.S., according to a paper in the journal Nature Geoscience.The study found that if the Pacific enters an...
Mar 16 2015 // Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt has charged a Tulsa contractor with two felony counts of embezzlement for fraudulent business practices in rebuilding homes damaged by the May 2013 tornado.The AG’s office said...