All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 2 2023 // A tornado touched down in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, on Saturday as a powerful storm system brought intense rain and powerful winds to the state, overturning cars, damaging homes and snapping tree branches.The National...
May 1 2023 // The Virginia Beach community in southeastern Virginia was hit by a tornado on Sunday, April 30, just minutes before 6:00 pm.City Manager Patrick Duhaney declared a state of emergency. Officials said there were no reported...
May 1 2023 // A northeast Mississippi tire plant that was damaged by an April tornado is expected to restart production in June.Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. said this week that it was likely to take several months for its Cooper Tire...
Apr 28 2023 // An infusion of federal funding will help build hundreds of homes in Kentucky communities devastated by tornadoes and floods in 2021, Gov. Andy Beshear said Wednesday.Four counties hardest hit by the storms – Graves,...
Apr 27 2023 // The U.S. has experienced a record number of tornadoes in the first three months of 2023 according to preliminary data from the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center (NWS SPC), delivering an active start to the...
Apr 25 2023 // President Joe Biden issued a disaster declaration Saturday for 13 Texas counties, freeing federal relief for areas damaged in last winter’s crippling ice storms.Disaster relief will be available for state agencies,...
Apr 25 2023 // A minor magnitude 3.6 earthquake shook parts of upstate New York on Sunday afternoon. There were no immediate reports of significant damage.The U.S. Geological Survey reported that the earthquake struck at 2:10 p.m. with...
Apr 24 2023 // California will provide 100% of the water requested by cities and farms for the first time in years thanks to winter storms that filled reservoirs and runoff from a record snowpack, regulators announced.The State Water...
Apr 20 2023 // A tornado outbreak on in central Oklahoma left three people dead and caused heavy damage Wednesday night.Three fatalities were reported in McClain County, where a tornado hit the town of Cole. Another tornado touched down...
Apr 20 2023 // Insurance losses from the March tornado that carved a path of destruction through parts of Mississippi are approaching $100 million, and uninsured losses will likely exceed that number, the state insurance department...
Apr 19 2023 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TIWA) Board of Directors on Tuesday elected to forego additional reinsurance beyond the $2.24 billion it selected in January, bringing the insurer of last resort’s total...
Apr 18 2023 // In 2015, the Shilo Christian Center in Melbourne, Florida, cut its property insurance premiums in half by asking its insurer to drop coverage for named windstorms.Hurricane Matthew struck the next year, ripping the roof of...
Apr 17 2023 // The National Weather Service confirmed two weak tornadoes touched down last week in middle Georgia.No one was reported injured in either storm. A tornado with top winds of 90 mph touched down on the southeast edge of...
Apr 17 2023 // The scent of the Mississippi Delta’s soil took hold of Charlie Weissinger’s psyche at an early age, and he has chased it ever since.Weissinger, 37, works at a bank to support his farming addiction in Rolling...
Apr 14 2023 // Production at a large north Mississippi tire plant has ground to a halt in the wake of a damaging tornado, pausing operations at one of Goodyear’s largest production facilities in North America.Storms that dropped...
Apr 12 2023 // The massive rainfall and snow California received this winter will likely delay the upcoming wildfire season for the state – though all that moisture is unlikely to curtail it much if at all, a wildfire report out today...
Apr 12 2023 // Kin Insurance and its reciprocal exchange program have expanded into Mississippi, just as tornado damage may be worsening in the state. Mississippi saw 184 tornadoes in 2022, ranking it first in the nation for tornado...
Apr 10 2023 // The National Weather Service said Thursday it was surveying damage from three EF-1 tornadoes that touched down in Kentucky.According to preliminary information, tornadoes hit the Pleasure Ridge Park and Newburg sections of...
Apr 5 2023 // Indiana Department of Insurance Commissioner Amy L. Beard issued a bulletin directing insurance companies to implement a 60-day cancellation moratorium for any policyholder directly affected by the recent weather events in...
Apr 4 2023 // The National Hurricane Center’s report on Hurricane Ian, posted Monday, six months after the storm hit southwest Florida, pegs Ian as the most expensive to hit the Sunshine State, causing twice as much damage as...