All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 12 2019 // Residents in North Texas began to come to grips Monday with the widespread damage left after a sudden thunderstorm bearing near hurricane-strength winds rolled through the area and collapsed a crane onto an apartment...
Jun 11 2019 // The National Weather Service and an outdoor advertising company are teaming up to equip nine digital billboards in central Illinois with the ability to display tornado warnings.Adams Outdoor Advertising says the billboards...
Jun 11 2019 // Following an outbreak of severe thunderstorms and damaging winds on June 9, thousands of wind-related claims have been filed in areas extending from Dallas through south central Texas, the Insurance Council of Texas...
Jun 10 2019 // The U.S. dealt with close to 4,400 reports of tornadoes, hail and straight-line winds in May, the most since 2011, according to weather data cited by Aon’s monthly Global Catastrophe Recap report.According to the...
Jun 7 2019 // Authorities in Louisiana are investigating reports of a possible tornado damage in the Baton Rouge area.The Advocate reports one home was severely damaged by a possible tornado in the community of Central. Baton Rouge...
Jun 7 2019 // PERILS AG has disclosed its second loss estimate of €798 million ($898.1 million) for windstorm Dragi-Eberhard. This estimate compares to the initial loss estimate of €740 million ($832.9 million) which was issued by...
Jun 6 2019 // Federal workers are in Ohio and have begun assessing the damage left behind by tornadoes that recently swept through 10 counties.Hundreds of homes and businesses were destroyed and many more were damaged during the...
Jun 5 2019 // Satellites tracking water vapor in 2012 helped scientists accurately predict Superstorm Sandy’s frightening turn toward New York and New Jersey where it killed dozens of people and inflicted billions of dollars in...
Jun 4 2019 // The Atlantic hurricane season, which began June 1, puts 7.3 million homes at risk with an estimated reconstruction cost of $1.8 trillion, CoreLogic said in its 2019 Storm Surge Report.That’s 300,000 more homes and...
Jun 3 2019 // Emergency officials near Georgia’s coast are investigating how to prevent future failures of an outdoor tornado siren system.The sirens were silent before a tornado passed through the Wilmington Island area east of...
Jun 3 2019 // The National Weather Service says a tornado touched down in Howard County, Maryland.The Baltimore Sun reported Friday that weather service meteorologists plan to survey the area to assess the damage. There were reports of...
Jun 3 2019 // More than a year after a tornado struck, a North Carolina school system says it’s reached a $10 million settlement with its insurance company for damage to three schools.The News & Record of Greensboro reports...
Jun 3 2019 // By Stephanie K. JonesTexas’ property insurer of last resort for wind and hail along the Texas coast voted at a May 24, 2019, meeting of its board of directors to withdraw a 10% rate increase filed last year that was...
May 31 2019 // Forecasters say at least two tornadoes hit parts of north and east Texas in a storm system that damaged dozens of homes and left one person hurt. The National Weather Service has confirmed twisters struck Wednesday in the...
May 31 2019 // Some 7.3 million U.S. homes with an estimated reconstruction cost of $1.8 trillion are at risk from storm surge, Irvine, California-based data analytics provider CoreLogic said in its 2019 Storm Surge Report, issued days...
May 30 2019 // The U.S. has been rocked by 500 tornadoes in the past 30 days with a trapped jet stream in the atmosphere “stuck in neutral,” according to the U.S. Storm Prediction Center.In the past seven decades, only 2003,...
May 30 2019 // Severe storms swept through Pennsylvania and several tornadoes were reported, causing damage to some homes but no immediate reports of injuries.Emergency dispatchers in eastern Pennsylvania’s Berks and Chester county...
May 29 2019 // A swarm of apparent tornadoes so tightly packed that one crossed the path carved by another tore across Indiana and Ohio overnight, smashing homes and blowing out windows. One person was killed and dozens were injured.The...
May 29 2019 // Severe thunderstorms produced eight weak tornadoes over Colorado’s northeastern plains while snow fell in parts of the mountains on the unofficial start of summer. The National Weather Service says no damage was...
May 28 2019 // Housing sales in Texas would drop, gasoline prices would increase and the state would lose hundreds of billions of dollars in economic output if another major storm struck an unprotected coastline, according to a new...