Latest Windstorm Headlines

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A Perfect Storm: Looking Ahead to the 2024 Hurricane Season

Jun 7 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.The Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States are officially in hurricane season, which every year starts on June 1 and lasts through the end of November. People...

Tornadoes Touch Down Across US, Killing Toddler in Michigan and Injuring 5 in Maryland

Jun 7 2024 // LIVONIA, Mich. (AP) — A tornado killed a 2-year-old boy and injured his mother Wednesday when a tree fell on their house in suburban Detroit, while emergency workers in Maryland were responding to reports of collapsed...

USDA Offers Disaster Assistance to Agricultural Producers Impacted by Recent Storms

Jun 4 2024 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is responding to the agricultural devastation caused by tornadoes and flooding in the Midwest.On May 24, Farm Service Agency (FSA) Administrator Zach Ducheneaux signed an...

Tallahassee Mayor Says Tornado Costs Now Top $50 Million

Jun 4 2024 // TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Recovery from a May 10 tornado outbreak has cost Florida’s capital city $50 million so far, Tallahassee Mayor John Dailey said Friday.Florida officials have requested that the Federal...

Kansas Storm Claims Total $442 Million for 2023

Jun 3 2024 // Kansas storm claims totaled nearly half a billion dollars in 2023.According to numbers shared by the state’s department of insurance, 147,710 claims totaling $442.8 million were paid last year. The Kansas Department...

Kentucky Families Struggling After Being Hit Second Time by Tornadoes

May 30 2024 // BARNSLEY, Ky. (AP) — Devin Johnson’s life was uprooted for a second time when a tornado flattened his home over the Memorial Day weekend — on the same lot in Kentucky where another storm left him homeless in...

Latest Texas Storms Bring Damaging Winds, Baseball-Sized Hail

May 30 2024 // HOUSTON (AP) — Strong storms with damaging winds and baseball-sized hail pummeled Texas on Tuesday, leaving one person dead and about 1 million businesses and homes without power as much of the U.S. recovered from severe...

Texas Storm Leaves Thousands of Homes Without Power: Weather Watch

May 29 2024 // Across parts of Texas, and mostly in the east, 500,789 customers reportedly had outages at 4:45 am EDT, according to PowerOutage.us. On Tuesday, 1,161 flights into and around the US were canceled with the majority of those...

Kentucky, Alabama Towns Dealing with Tornado Damage, Florida Feeling Record Heat

May 29 2024 // The latest community left with shattered homes and no power was the tiny Kentucky town of Charleston, which took a direct hit Sunday night from a tornado that the governor said appeared to be on the ground for 40 miles (64...

Tornado, Winds Again Pound Kentucky, Leaving 5 Deaths, Heavy Damage

May 28 2024 // The same weather system that spawned deadly tornadoes in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas also killed five people in western Kentucky and left hundreds of properties damaged.Local news reports said that people died in Mercer...

Storms Leave 15 Dead, Hundreds Injured in Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas

May 28 2024 // VALLEY VIEW, Texas (AP) — Powerful storms killed at least 15 people, injured hundreds and left a wide trail of destruction Sunday across Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas after obliterating homes and destroying a truck stop...

Iowa Wind Farm Hit by Tornado, Resulting in Rare Destruction of Turbines

May 24 2024 // OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A wind farm in southwest Iowa suffered a direct hit from a powerful tornado that crumpled five of the massive, power-producing towers, including one that burst into flames. But experts say...

Tornado Devastates Iowa Town, Killing Multiple People

May 23 2024 // GREENFIELD, Iowa (AP) — Multiple people died Tuesday and at least a dozen were injured when a powerful tornado tore through a small Iowa town, carving a bleak landscape of destroyed homes and businesses, shredded trees,...

Texas Braces for More Heat, Storms and Floods: Weather Watch

May 23 2024 // Parts of the central US stretching from North Dakota to northern Texas, including Dallas, face an enhanced risk from severe thunderstorms, strong wind, hail and possibly tornadoes on Thursday, the US Storm Prediction...

TWIA Prepares Biennial Report for Texas Legislature; Assoc. Sees Limited Claims From Houston Storm

May 22 2024 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association Board’s Legislative & External Affairs Committee met on May 21 to plan the association’s Biennial Report to the Texas Legislature.TWIA submits a biennial report to...

Houston Storm Hit Most-Stressed US Grid With Power Outages at 140,000

May 22 2024 // Windows are still falling from skyscrapers in downtown Houston after a historic wind storm whipped through the city last week. And days after the disaster, more than 140,000 customers in the area remain without power.Most...

Climate Change Made Recent UK and Ireland Storms Much Worse

May 22 2024 // The heavy downpours seen in the UK and Ireland last fall and winter were about 20% worse because of climate change, a new scientific report found.The region saw as many as 14 severe storms between October and March,...

Central US States Brace for Possible Severe Storms: Weather Watch

May 21 2024 // There is a moderate risk — the second highest — of severe thunderstorms across parts of Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and Missouri affecting more than 3.8 million people, the US Storm Prediction Center said.“All...

Power Restored to Majority of Houston Residents Affected by Deadly Storms

May 21 2024 // HOUSTON (AP) — Houston area residents affected by deadly storms last week received some good news as officials said power was restored Sunday to a majority of the hundreds of thousands who had been left in the dark and...

Houston Windstorm Causes Preliminary Economic Loss of $5-7B: AccuWeather

May 20 2024 // The destructive windstorm that blew out windows in downtown Houston and left hundreds of thousands of southeast Texas residents without power caused upwards of $5-7 billion in total damage and economic loss, according to...