All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...