All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 9 2015 // The National Weather Service is checking the damage from a weekend of rough weather in Alabama. Officials confirmed Monday that a weak tornado touched down in west Alabama in Hamilton on Saturday evening. A twister with 85...
Jan 6 2015 // The amount of storm damage reported in Kansas in 2014 was the lowest amount in 16 years, according to state insurance regulators.The Kansas Insurance Department says insurance companies received reports of $112.4 million...
Jan 4 2015 // Just 16 tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma in 2014, which the National Weather Service says is the fewest on record.Oklahoma state climatologist Gary McManus says a combination of factors led to the relative lack of...
Jan 1 2015 // Earlier this week, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Small Business Administration joined Mississippi and local officials on a tour of the Columbia area, as well as Jones and Lamar counties that were hit by...
Dec 29 2014 // State officials said the initial numbers from the Dec. 23 storms show 241 total homes and 77 businesses suffered some damage in three Mississippi counties.There were four deaths and 50 injuries from the storm. In Marion...
Dec 24 2014 // President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster in upstate New York. That means Washington will chip in to help state, local and tribal governments pay to clean up and rebuild after a blockbuster storm buried the...
Dec 24 2014 // Tupelo, Misissippi has received money for architectural design and engineering of domed storm shelters able to hold a total of 2,300 people in two city parks.The domes are designed to withstand winds up to 250 mph, The...
Dec 23 2014 // PERILS AG announced that its “fourth and final” loss estimate for windstorm Dirk, which affected the UK and France from 23 to 25 December 2013, is €420 million [$513.5 million] for the property insurance...
Dec 16 2014 // A small tornado that touched ground briefly in Arcadia, Okla., has been rated an EF0 by the National Weather Service in Norman.Weather service meteorologist Marc Austin said that the tornado caused no damage and appeared...
Dec 12 2014 // The National Weather Service says it will recognize Faulkner County in Arkansas as a “StormReady” community next week.Forecasters said that with the deaths in last April’s tornado at Mayflower and...
Dec 12 2014 // A Pineapple Express “super storm” now lashing California may be driven by climate change, a report states.Yet however strong the storm and no matter what’s causing it, California’s ongoing storm...
Dec 11 2014 // The city of Louisville and Winston County in Mississippi are being given $3.9 million in federal funds to assist with removal of debris from an April tornado.The money has been approved by the Federal Emergency Management...
Dec 8 2014 // More than 21 people were killed as heavy rain and winds lashed the central Philippines, while a weakened storm Hagupit headed toward Manila.The government shut state offices and trading of stocks, bonds and currencies was...
Dec 6 2014 // Communities in western New York are tallying the costs of last month’s epic snowstorm to see if it meets the threshold for federal assistance.The storm cost Erie County government at least $7.5 million in damage,...
Dec 5 2014 // As fall gives way to winter, meteorologists from the U.S. East Coast to the shores of Western Europe will be watching for signs that the next storm heading their way will turn into a bomb.That’s right — a bomb....
Dec 2 2014 // A Pacific storm will dump heavy rains across drought-stricken Southern and Central California, threatening the area with mudslides and floods.The storm will also leave snow across the Sierra Nevada mountains that may...
Dec 1 2014 // The 1,200-pound steel cylinder in James Trudeau’s driveway certainly struck his Bourbonnais, Ill., neighborhood as odd, at least at first.Even Kankakee County’s planning department wasn’t sure what to...
Dec 1 2014 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) has initiated a process whereby interested insurance companies may access information on TWIA insured properties in an effort to move policies to private insurers.The...
Nov 26 2014 // Insured losses from winter storms in the U.S. will climb well above $2.5 billion in 2014, double the annual average over the previous two decades. The Insurance Information Institute says the polar vortex will be...
Nov 7 2014 // When a hurricane comes ashore, there are so many dangers: tree-snapping winds, torrential downpours and even tornadoes spawned by the tempest itself.But it’s the wall of water that tropical systems push onto land,...