All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 26 2008 // Insurers say estimated damage in South Carolina from severe weather earlier this month has increased to $43 million.The South Carolina Insurance News Service said Monday that more than 11,000 insurance claims had been...
Mar 26 2008 // Roofers and other construction workers are busy repairing damage from the severe weather that raced through Kentucky early last month.When the Kentucky Office of Insurance sent members of its emergency response team to...
Mar 21 2008 // An Atlantic storm threatened to pummel Puerto Rico and other islands with waves as high as 30 feet (9 meters) beginning late Wednesday, forcing tourists and other Holy Week vacationers to seek alternatives to the beach.The...
Mar 21 2008 // Reacting to Gulf Coast hurricanes and potential future storm losses, State Farm said it will limit coverage in Alabama for new policies in Mobile and Baldwin counties beginning April 1.State Farm, based in Bloomington,...
Mar 19 2008 // Weather officials in Alabama confirmed that storm damages in Blount and Cherokee counties were caused by two tornadoes.The March 15 tornadoes packing 115 mph winds, caused no injuries or deaths, the National Weather...
Mar 19 2008 // High winds destroyed a home and a business in Mississippi’s Prentiss County March 14 and caused major damage to two other structures.A Mississippi Emergency Management Agency spokesman said March 15 that it’s...
Mar 19 2008 // It took just three seconds for John Simmons and his family to lose their home in one of at least 15 tornadoes that swept across South Carolina last weekend.On March 15, as winds downed trees and ripped the roof off the...
Mar 18 2008 // Many Atlanta streets were closed and some traffic lights were still out Monday morning because of a tornado that ripped a path of destruction through the city’s core. Commuters to downtown were encouraged to stay...
Mar 18 2008 // The National Weather has confirmed that a tornado caused the turbulent weather in northwest Georgia that left two people dead.Meteorologist Frank Taylor says the tornado touched down at 12:25 p.m. on March 15, at the...
Mar 17 2008 // A severe weather system moved into Georgia March 14 resulting in numerous injuries and major destruction and damage to areas of Atlanta and Fulton County, Ga.The system produced one tornado, injuring at least 20 people and...
Mar 12 2008 // Both the Texas FAIR Plan Association and the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) have elected new officers for 2008-2009.For the Texas FAIR Plan, James Langford, vice president, Texas Farm Bureau Insurance...
Mar 11 2008 // The federal government authorized individual assistance for McNairy, Tipton and Wayne Counties for storms that struck Tennessee Feb. 5 and 6, according to Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen.Individual assistance can include...
Mar 11 2008 // Texas Insurance Commissioner Mike Geeslin recently signed an order increasing the maximum limits of liability from $3,390,000 to $4 million for a commercial or government building insured for wind and hail by the Texas...
Mar 10 2008 // Thunderstorms and tornadoes that raced into Georgia last week of February caused about $15 million damage to some 1,300 homes, a state official said.Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine earlier estimated insured losses to...
Mar 10 2008 // A hurricane that hit Miami in 1926 would cause up to $157 billion in damage if it were to strike today, according to a recent study.U.S. storm costs are rising because of higher populations and wealth on the coasts, not a...
Mar 7 2008 // Kansas state officials say the winter storm that knocked power out to thousands of customers across Kansas continues to get costlier. The newest damage estimate was released earlier this week, putting the figure at $381...
Mar 6 2008 // The new head of the National Hurricane Center says the big challenge for forecasters is predicting the intensity of hurricanes.Bill Read says there’s been a lot of improvement in track models in recent years. But he...
Mar 4 2008 // Boston-based AIR Worldwide is assessing the damages caused by windstorm Emma, which swept across Western and Southern Germany, as well as Austria and the Czech Republic on Saturday, March 1. No damage estimates have yet...
Feb 29 2008 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency opened a center in southern Kentucky about a mile from where a winter storms tore apart homes and killed four people earlier this month.FEMA workers are at a Mobile Disaster Recovery...
Feb 29 2008 // Southern Baptist Convention President Frank Page is asking churches to give money to Jackson, Tennessee’s Union University to help rebuild its campus after a powerful tornado caused more than $40 million in damages...