All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 6 2014 // Crews are working to clean up debris that was strewn along Lake Michigan during a storm last week.Strong winds blew tree trunks, branches, tires, wooden pallets, ladders and other items across beaches in Michigan and...
Nov 4 2014 // The Texas Department of Insurance announced that the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association expert panel will hold a public meeting on Nov. 12 to discuss the progress of the panel’s work thus far. Attendees will have...
Nov 3 2014 // Texas’ wind and hail insurer of last resort in coastal areas announced that a judgment has been entered in its favor in a lawsuit brought by League City in Southeast Texas.The judgment signed on Oct. 16, 2014, by...
Oct 31 2014 // A hurricane may lose its name, its structure and even its place on National Hurricane Center tracking maps. None of that is a guarantee the storm’s meteorological energy won’t keep making mischief.While still...
Oct 31 2014 // With just about a month left in the eastern Pacific’s hurricane season, Mexico is once again the target of a tropical system on its western coast.The latest system, Tropical Storm Vance, was drifting west in the...
Oct 30 2014 // Sea Bright, New Jersey, is a great example of how difficult it is to truly prepare a Jersey shore community for the next big storm.The low-lying community on a narrow strip of sand between the ocean and the Shrewsbury...
Oct 29 2014 // Six months after a devastating tornado, Winston County’s hospital is still operating out of tents and shipping containers, home rebuilding is sputtering along and it may be another year before a new plywood mill...
Oct 27 2014 // The Texas Department of Insurance has scheduled a public hearing to consider the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association’s (TWIA) petition related to the maximum limits of liability for windstorm and hail insurance...
Oct 27 2014 // The tornadoes that hit Louisiana’s Ouachita Parish on Oct. 13 did millions of dollars in damage, but officials don’t know whether it will be enough to qualify the parish for help from the Federal Emergency...
Oct 27 2014 // After Superstorm Sandy, officials in New York and New Jersey vowed to make sure the unprecedented destruction wouldn’t happen again.Two years later, would it? There are some concrete signs of tougher protections,...
Oct 27 2014 // The southwest Washington city of Longview tallied the damage Friday from a rare tornado that tore off roofs, broke windows and uprooted trees, leaving residents and officials in disbelief.No one was injured in the Thursday...
Oct 22 2014 // The Georgia Insurance Commissioner said consumers have reported multimillion dollar insured losses from a storm that included several tornadoes.Commissioner Ralph Hudgens said that reported damage from last week’s...
Oct 21 2014 // Texas’ wind and hail insurer of last resort in coastal areas announced that a judgment has been entered in its favor in a lawsuit brought by League City in Southeast Texas.The judgment signed on Oct. 16, 2014, by...
Oct 21 2014 // Hannover Re, the world’s third- largest reinsurer, expects more than 5 billion euros ($6.4 billion) in losses from two storms to sustain prices for coverage in Germany.“Heavy loss expenditures, especially in...
Oct 20 2014 // Hawaii residents started to relax Sunday after days of keeping a cautious eye on Hurricane Ana, which was downgraded by late afternoon into a tropical storm.After being dangerously close for several days the closest Ana...
Oct 20 2014 // Colorado’s insurance industry is weighing its options after the latest hailstorm hit densely populated South Metro Denver — unusual for the Rockies in late September.What Coloradans might likely see down the...
Oct 17 2014 // A Central Pacific Hurricane Center advisory shows Tropical Storm Ana is located 315 miles south-southwest of Hilo, Hawaii, with maximum sustained winds of 70 mph.While Ana is gradually strengthening, and may achieve...
Oct 17 2014 // Gonzalo, classified as a major hurricane and bearing down on Bermuda with tree-snapping winds, is forecast to bring flooding and a life-threatening storm surge as it’s projected to be the worst storm to hit the...
Oct 15 2014 // A severe storm system rolled across the South for a second day Tuesday, knocking out power to thousands as it made a mess of the morning commute in Atlanta and other Southern cities.The storm, which claimed two lives a day...
Oct 15 2014 // Earth Networks Inc., a Maryland company that provides weather-tracking services, has received a patent on a technology that can be used to track storm cells.Patent 8,836,518 covers a method that uses lightning-flash rates...