All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 26 2012 // Catastrophe modeling firm Risk Management Solutions (RMS) issued the following update on Tropical Storm Debby this morning, Tuesday, June 26:Over the last 24 hours, Tropical Storm Debby (located over the northeast Gulf of...
Jun 26 2012 // Tropical Storm Debby whipped Florida with bands of drenching rain Monday while its center was nearly stationary in the Gulf of Mexico. Its slow progress meant the most pressing threat from the storm was flooding, not...
Jun 25 2012 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide issued the following advisory on Tropical Storm Debby this morning:According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, Tropical Storm Debby is the fourth named storm of the 2012...
Jun 25 2012 // Catastrophe modeling firm Risk Management Solutions (RMS) issued the following advisory on Tropical Storm Debby this morning:Tropical storm winds and heavy rain are affecting the northeast Gulf States as Tropical Storm...
Jun 24 2012 // Tropical Storm Debby meandered slowly to the Florida coast on Sunday, bringing strong winds and waves that forced the closure of about a quarter of offshore oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico and spawning...
Jun 22 2012 // Energy companies began evacuating non-essential personnel from operations in Gulf of Mexico on Friday due to the threat of a weather system in the region developing into a tropical cyclone.Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and...
Jun 20 2012 // Connecticut Light & Power struck back Monday at Attorney General George Jepsen, who asked state regulators to punish the state’s largest utility for its response to two storms last year.In a filing with the...
Jun 20 2012 // Top Boeing Co. executives were in Wichita, Kan., on June 18 to celebrate tornado recovery efforts by parts supplier Spirit AeroSystems, telling thousands of cheering employees that the event forged a stronger bond between...
Jun 20 2012 // The National Hurricane Center in Miami is currently tracking Tropical Storm Chris, the third named storm of the current Atlantic hurricane season, but it does not expect it to cause any damage on land.According to the...
Jun 19 2012 // A replacement for one of the most well-traveled and iconic bridges in the Adirondack High Peaks was completed and opened to hikers Sunday as crews continue to repair backcountry trail damage from Tropical Storm Irene in...
Jun 18 2012 // A report from Willis Re notes that “UK insurers may see increases of up to 97 percent in their capital requirement for catastrophe exposures under Solvency II rules when making calculations under the new Risk...
Jun 18 2012 // Habitat for Humanity is planning to build nine houses in Indiana for residents displaced by tornadoes. Madison’s local planning commission recommended that the city council rezone 1.25 acres of former city property...
Jun 18 2012 // Tornadoes swept through several counties in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Maryland earlier this month, knocking down trees and power lines and damaging dozens of structures and homes, according to The Associated Press....
Jun 18 2012 // When people think of hurricane damage they usually think of Miami or New Orleans, but a new report suggests the greatest financial risk of all may be much farther north: the greater New York City area.Data analysis firm...
Jun 18 2012 // A major hail storm in April in Kentucky is estimated to have caused $175 million in insured losses and damages when balls of ice as large as baseballs battered cars and homes and knocked out power to thousands. The PSC...
Jun 18 2012 // Colorado State University researchers have raised their forecast for the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season to 13 tropical storms, with five hurricanes and two major hurricanes.In April they forecast 10 tropical storms, with...
Jun 15 2012 // Arizona transportation officials are getting the message out about dust storm safety – in precisely 17 syllables.The Arizona Department of Transportation is encouraging Twitter users to tweet haikus around the theme safe...
Jun 15 2012 // Swiss based insurance advisor PERILS has issued an updated loss report for windstorm Joachim, which occurred from December 15 to 17, 2011 in Western Europe. PERILS’ third property market loss announcement estimates...
Jun 14 2012 // The National Weather Service has confirmed that a rare tornado touched down last week in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.WLUC-TV and The Mining Journal of Marquette report the weak tornado touched down Friday in northwest...
Jun 13 2012 // Severe weather including hailstorms is driving up the cost of homeowners insurance in Wyoming’s Cheyenne area.James Mitchell with the Wyoming Insurance Department says many Wyoming property owners are set to see...