All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 31 2022 // Residents in northwestern Missouri were cleaning up Wednesday after a tornado hit parts of St. Joseph overnight as a line of strong storms moved through the region.A survey team with the National Weather Service confirmed...
Mar 31 2022 // Severe storms injured seven people, damaged buildings and downed power lines in northwest Arkansas early Wednesday as tornadoes and hurricane-force winds were forecast in much of the Deep South, a week after a twister hit...
Mar 31 2022 // Strong thunderstorms and tornadoes caused damage across parts of five Southern states Wednesday night and Thursday morning, killing two people and leaving some 180,000 people without power.Local news outlets and the...
Mar 29 2022 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI) announced it has established an open-door insurance resource center in Arabi to assist those affected by the tornado that struck the area last week. Meetings will be held at...
Mar 28 2022 // A tornado that killed a man near New Orleans this week was the metro area’s second strongest on record and left an 11.5-mile track northeast through three parishes, the National Weather Service said last week.Its...
Mar 24 2022 // Louisiana National Guardsmen and other responders went door-to-door in areas around New Orleans on March 23 as the region dug out from overnight tornadoes, with Gov. John Bel Edwards declaring a state of emergency and...
Mar 24 2022 // A tornado that menaced New Orleans flipped a schoolbus, ripped off rooftops and deposited a house with a family inside onto the middle of Prosperity Street. Two people were killed as the storm front blew across the...
Mar 24 2022 // The same severe weather front that destroyed property in Texas and Louisiana also spawned at least six tornadoes in Mississippi and Alabama, but damage appeared to limited. In Baldwin County, in south Alabama, emergency...
Mar 24 2022 // A tornado tore through parts of New Orleans and its suburbs Tuesday night, ripping down power lines and scattering debris in a part of the city that had been heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina 17 years ago.There were no...
Mar 23 2022 // One person was killed and more than a dozen were injured when tornadoes tore through parts of Texas and Oklahoma, damaging a school, homes and businesses, officials said. The same storm system was poised to move into...
Mar 23 2022 // A tornado reached east New Orleans Tuesday evening, leaving at least one person dead and causing significant damage to the Lower Ninth Ward.St. Bernard Parish Sheriff James Pohlmann confirmed that at least one person was...
Mar 22 2022 // Wildfires continued to scorch parts of Texas on March 21, and a storm system moving through could bring much-needed rain but also strong winds, forecasters said.The fires were already blamed for the deaths of two...
Mar 22 2022 // Multiple tornadoes were reported in central Texas Monday March 21, causing “devastating” property damage according to Gov. Greg Abbott.A tornado touched ground in Red Rock, about 30 miles southeast of Austin,...
Mar 15 2022 // In the not-too-distant future, researchers should be able to see exactly which materials and construction techniques hold up best against the worst that Mother Nature has to offer: 200-mph winds, storm surges and the...
Mar 9 2022 // Four of the seven people killed in devastating storms that tore through central Iowa were members of the same family who had sought shelter inside a home that was razed by a powerful tornado, authorities said.Two children,...
Mar 2 2022 // Insured losses from February’s windstorms Dudley and Eunice will likely fall between 3.0 and 4.5 billion Euro (US$3.4 and US$5.1 billion), with Germany accounting for around 40% of the total loss, according to risk...
Feb 25 2022 // Insured losses due to wind from Winter Storms Dudley/Ylenia and Eunice/Zeynep will range between €3 billion and €5 billion (US$2.2 billion-$5.6 billion), the majority of which are expected in Germany, UK, and the...
Feb 18 2022 // An Atlantic storm battered Britain and Ireland on Friday with record winds of up to 122 miles per hour, killing at least one person, knocking out power for tens of thousands and shredding the roof of London’s O2...
Feb 17 2022 // A tornado watch is in effect for parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee until 6:00 p.m. CST, Thursday Feb. 16, according to the National Weather Service.The NWS said to expect “Severe thunderstorms...
Feb 17 2022 // Britain’s Met Office issued a rare red weather warning for parts of the UK, saying hurricane-strength gusts of 90 miles (145 kilometers) an hour are set to hit the country on Friday.The weather service said the most...