All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Feb 16 2022 // Storms across northwest Europe are set to drive electricity generation from wind farms to records this week in gusty conditions that threaten to disrupt transportation and down power lines.Weather forecasters in the UK,...
Feb 15 2022 // Detroit is starting a program to reduce chronic basement flooding during intense storms.The program initially will target two neighborhoods and later expand to others, Mayor Mike Duggan said. The strategy follows major...
Feb 15 2022 // The Oklahoma Corporation Commission voted to approve two orders for state utilities to recover natural gas costs incurred during the February 2021 winter storm. The commission approved separate orders for CenterPoint...
Feb 14 2022 // Detroit is starting a program to reduce chronic basement flooding during intense storms.The program initially will target two neighborhoods and later expand to others, Mayor Mike Duggan said. The strategy follows major...
Feb 11 2022 // SpaceX’s newest fleet of satellites is tumbling out of orbit after being struck by a solar storm.Up to 40 of the 49 small satellites launched last week have either reentered the atmosphere and burned up, or are on...
Feb 7 2022 // An insurance policy that lists named windstorms among the covered perils doesn’t cover flood damages caused by Hurricane Harvey even though flooding wasn’t specifically excluded, a panel of the 5th Circuit...
Feb 2 2022 // Airlines canceled hundreds of flights, governors urged residents to stay off roads and schools closed campuses as a huge swath of the U.S. braced for a major winter storm that was set to put millions of Americans in the...
Feb 2 2022 // A major winter storm was expected to affect a huge swath of the United States beginning Feb. 1, with heavy snow starting in the Rockies and freezing rain as far south as Texas before it drops snow and ice on the...
Jan 21 2022 // The weekend storm that brought rain and snow to much of New Jersey also caused significant erosion to a Jersey Shore beach that was already in the process of being widened.Now, federal and state officials are trying to...
Jan 19 2022 // The family of a delivery driver who died last month when a tornado collapsed the central Illinois Amazon facility where he worked filed a wrongful deathlawsuitMonday in Madison County.The action on behalf of Austin McEwen,...