All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 16 2024 // The Texas power grid operator asked residents to conserve power a second time this week as a blast of cold weather plummeted temperatures well below freezing for much of the state.This new conservation request is from 6...
Jan 10 2024 // Storm Henk, which battered Britain last week, caused around 150 million pounds ($190 million) in insured losses and damaged around 2,000 properties, consultants PwC said on Wednesday.Heavy rain caused major rivers to burst...
Jan 10 2024 // Four people were killed and property was ripped apart as tornadoes and severe thunderstoms moved across the Southeast Tuesday.The New York Times and other news services reported that an 81-year-old woman died after her...
Jan 9 2024 // Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond has launched an online tip form where the public can report allegedly illegal conduct related to energy costs during Winter Storm Uri. The tipline, located on the Attorney...
Jan 9 2024 // Multiple tornadoes and high winds were reported across the South early Tuesday, including Panama City, Florida, where storms caused significant damage to homes and businesses and forced rescues of stranded...
Dec 29 2023 // A storm that battered the UK with high winds and heavy snow damaged houses, canceled trains and left thousands of people without electricity Thursday across Scotland and parts of northern England.Workers dealt with wind...
Dec 28 2023 // MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – From an ice storm in North Dakota that sealed windows shut to blizzard conditions in Colorado causing hundreds of airport delays and cancellations, a winter storm pummeled much of the central United...
Dec 27 2023 // Nine people have died in Australia after severe storms lashed the nation’s east coast on Christmas Day and Boxing Day, with the Bureau of Meteorology warning there is a risk of more flash flooding even as the weather...
Dec 22 2023 // NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A seventh person in Tennessee has died from injuries she suffered during a string of powerful storms earlier this month that whipped up destructive tornadoes, according to police.Penny...
Dec 21 2023 // Just days before the Christmas holiday, people across the northeastern U.S. were mopping up Tuesday after a major storm dumped torrential rains and brought damaging winds from Pennsylvania to Maine, as some rivers in the...
Dec 20 2023 // Allianz has sponsored a new catastrophe bond which will provide the group with multi-year risk transfer capacity of €250 million to protect itself against European windstorms.Allianz entered into a three-year reinsurance...
Dec 20 2023 // A storm barreled up the East Coast on Monday, flooding roads and downing trees in the Northeast, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands, and forcing flight cancelations and school closures.More than 5 inches (13...
Dec 19 2023 // CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A 4-month-old boy has survived after a tornado in Tennessee sucked him up from his family`s mobile home, which was demolished in the storm.Sydney Moore told WSMV-TV that when the tornado hit...
Dec 18 2023 // Initial industry losses for extratropical windstorm Ciarán, also known as Emir, are estimated at €1.9 billion (US$2.1 billion), according to PERILS, the independent Zurich-based organization that provides industry-wide...
Dec 14 2023 // Residents of Garner, North Carolina, have spent the week cleaning up after an F1 tornado damaged more than 20 homes and left four of them uninhabitable.The Raleigh News & Observer reported that warmer winters already...
Dec 13 2023 // Things are looking up in the buffeted Florida market, but reinsurance rates will continue to rise for the next two years, and a 2024 hurricane season could be busy. It all suggests that property insurers will continue to...
Dec 12 2023 // NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Residents of central Tennessee communities slammed by deadly tornadoes this weekend described tragic and terrifying scenes in which one mobile home landed on top of another, roofs were ripped...
Dec 11 2023 // NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Severe storms that tore through central Tennessee killed six people Saturday and sent about two dozen to the hospital as homes and businesses were damaged in multiple cities.Three people,...
Dec 7 2023 // Global insured losses from severe thunderstorms have hit a new all-time high of US$60 billion in 2023, with overall natural catastrophe claims surpassing $100 billion, according to Swiss Re Institute in a new report.As the...
Dec 7 2023 // FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A report released Tuesday by state officials on the disbursement of Kentucky`s tornado relief fund found that it sent out about $239, 000 in mistaken payments.The review of the fund by State...