All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 27 2022 // Gov. Doug Burgum is asking for some federal help in dealing with $57 million in public infrastructure damage caused by severe spring storms and flooding in North Dakota.Burgum has requested a presidential disaster...
Jun 27 2022 // New York, Miami, Tampa, and New Orleans are the metro areas with the most single-family homes at risk of heavy damage from storm surge during hurricanes, according to a report released by CoreLogic, a property data...
Jun 22 2022 // Three men died after their small boat overturned on a North Texas lake during a strong storm over the weekend, authorities said. The boat overturned in Lake Lavon on Saturday night, the Collin County sheriff’s office...
Jun 17 2022 // Powerful storms that included at least one tornado took down power lines and trees, damaged structures, toppled semis on the interstate and left tens of thousands without electricity in parts of Wisconsin.In western...
Jun 16 2022 // A child and two men were missing Tuesday after they were swept away in a Milwaukee drainage ditch a day earlier following severe thunderstorms that brought heavy rain and damaging winds to a wide swath of the Midwest and...
Jun 16 2022 // The storm that swept through southern Ontario and parts of Quebec on Saturday, May 21, caused over C$875 million (US$676.3 million) in insured damages, according to the Insurance Bureau of Canada, which quoted initial...
Jun 14 2022 // Strong winds and storms forced crowds who gathered in a rural Kansas field for a symphony performance to evacuate and damaged a sorority house at Kansas State University.About half a dozen tornado warnings were issued...
Jun 13 2022 // South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem last week requested a presidential disaster declaration as the result of damage from a May 12 storm system that included tornadoes, straight-line winds and flooding.The request is meant to...
Jun 10 2022 // A Meijer distribution center in western Ohio was heavily damaged Wednesday evening as employees inside heeded tornado warnings and sought shelter, authorities said.Joel Smith, director of the Miami County Emergency...
Jun 6 2022 // Tropical Storm Alex, the first named storm of what’s predicted to be a busy 2022 Atlantic season, caused minor flooding in parts of South Florida before it strengthened a bit and aimed for Bermuda.The storm that...
Jun 3 2022 // Amazon.com Inc. is obstructing a congressional investigation of a deadly December tornado by failing to provide documents about emergency preparedness and communications with workers during the storm, according to a letter...
Jun 1 2022 // Thousands of people in Minnesota and South Dakota were without electrical power Tuesday as the region recovered from storms and tornadoes that left damaged buildings, trees and roadways. The National Weather Service said...
May 25 2022 // Three tornadoes, one of which toppled a church steeple at the Indiana National Guard’s Camp Atterbury, hit parts of central and south-central Indiana on Saturday as a wave of severe thunderstorms swept across the...
May 23 2022 // Roofs and walls on a busy business stretch were turned to tangled rubble. Mobile homes were destroyed. Tornadoes are so uncommon in northern Michigan that Gaylord doesn’t have a siren system to warn people about...
May 19 2022 // The National Weather Service has confirmed a series of weak tornadoes across rural parts of northwestern Kansas and a county in southwestern Nebraska along the Kansas line. The tornadoes hit Tuesday afternoon as a line of...
May 6 2022 // A springtime storm system spawned several tornadoes that whipped through areas of Texas and Oklahoma, causing damage to a school, a marijuana farm and other structures.There were no reports of serious injuries following...
May 5 2022 // The mother of a man who was killed in December when a tornado slammed into an Amazon facility in Illinois said on Tuesday that her son was only in the building because he was called into work on his day off.“It...
May 4 2022 // In the 11 years since a devastating tornado outbreak struck Tuscaloosa, Alabama, social media has evolved into a lifesaving tool during periods of severe weather, said Richard Scott, the chief meteorologist for...
May 3 2022 // At least two twisters reportedly touched down briefly as part of a storm system that rolled across northeastern Illinois.One EF-0 tornado snapped tree branches and uprooted some trees as it traveled about two miles (3.2...
May 2 2022 // The tornado that damaged more than more than 1,000 buildings in south-central Kansas generated winds up to 165 mph and carved a path of destruction nearly 13 miles long.The National Weather Service said the tornado that...