All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 15 2009 // The National Weather Service has upgraded the strength of a tornado that killed a woman and her infant daughter when it hit Murfreesboro last week and said a second tornado touched down in the county.The weather service...
Apr 15 2009 // The band of weekend storms blamed for one man’s death in South Carolina also caused at least $6 million in damages, officials said.Nearly 2,000 insurance claims had been filed by Monday afternoon and preliminary...
Apr 15 2009 // Violent weather that struck Georgia on April 10 caused an estimated $60 million in insured losses, according to Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John W. Oxendine. “That’s a preliminary figure from the...
Apr 15 2009 // Up to 465 students in Mena, Ark., will have to attend classes elsewhere after a tornado on April 9 damaged the Mena Middle School so severely that the building will have to be condemned.Officials say that as many as 300...
Apr 13 2009 // Arkansas National Guard soldiers and state prisoner work crews in Mena, Ark., removed debris April 11 while firefighters and volunteers from all over pitched in to help residents recover from a devastating tornado and...
Apr 10 2009 // Businesses in Southwest Missouri learned a lot about insurance, record-keeping and personal safety from tornadoes that tore through the area last spring.In many ways, walking into Bill Lant’s feed store in Seneca,...
Apr 9 2009 // Texas legislators finally have jumped into debate over how to improve the troubled windstorm insurance system that serves as a last resort for hurricane protection along much of the Gulf Coast.The House Insurance...
Apr 6 2009 // Global warming should lift sea levels along the U.S. Northeast nearly twice as fast as global rates this century, putting New York City at risk to damage from hurricanes and winter storm surges, scientists said.“The...
Mar 31 2009 // Just as the Red River began retreating from Fargo, N.D.’s hastily fortified levees, the city’s tired residents stared down a winter storm March 30 that is expected to bring than a foot of snow and wind-whipped...
Mar 31 2009 // Officials in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania officials say a tornado could have cause the destruction to five trailer homes in Clay Township. Dave Wiker, the county’s emergency services shift supervisor, says three...
Mar 30 2009 // Many Central Texans are still cleaning up from a large hail storm on last week that knocked out windows, smashed roofs and dented thousands of automobiles causing an estimated $160 million in insured losses.The storm swept...
Mar 27 2009 // Since funding for the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) has become a top priority for the Texas Legislature, statewide lawmakers have debated several solutions that will impact policyholders in Texas, according...
Mar 16 2009 // Ohio’s Feb. 11-12 windstorm caused at least $88.9 million in damages, based on preliminary insured loss estimates from the Ohio Insurance Institute (OII), an insurance industry trade group. Widespread losses were...
Mar 16 2009 // A bill introduced into the Oklahoma State Senate that provides tax credits for victims of the Feb. 10, 2009, storms that destroyed dozens of homes and businesses and caused multiple fatalities is now headed to the House of...
Feb 27 2009 // Kentucky and federal officials say damage estimates from the January ice storm will likely top $185 million. Kentucky’s Emergency Management director, Brig. Gen. John W. Heltzel, says the damages were primarily...
Feb 26 2009 // The financial toll from the January ice storm in north Arkansas is estimated at $500 million, with most of the cost for restoring electric utilities.The three major utilities that sustained damage from the storm say they...
Feb 25 2009 // The damage estimate from last week’s tornadoes is now more than $35 million based on new observations in southwest Georgia by the state insurance commissioner.Commissioner John Oxendine said after a tour that at...
Feb 22 2009 // Kentucky officials say the Jan. 27 storm that blanketed the region with ice and snow took 35 lives. About 769,000 customers lost power at its peak, and almost 50,000 were still without power two weeks later.More than 100...
Feb 20 2009 // Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide has updated its insured loss estimates of property losses in France from winter storm Klaus to between 500 million and 1 billion Euros.These losses represent damage to buildings...
Feb 17 2009 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland declared a state of emergency following the recent deadly tornadoes and severe weather in her state. The declaration enables emergency claims adjusters to be licensed temporarily...