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Texas Storms Injure 1, Damage Buildings, Flip Small Airplanes

Mar 14 2019 // Severe thunderstorms in North Texas have left at least one person hurt, damaged buildings and flipped small planes at a suburban airport. The Storm Prediction Center says gusts of more than 75 mph (120 kph) were reported...

2 Tornadoes Struck Mississippi in Weekend Storms

Mar 13 2019 // The National Weather Service has confirmed two tornadoes touched down in northern Mississippi over the weekend.There were no deaths or serious injuries in either storm. The weather service in Memphis, Tennessee, said the...

Tropical Cyclone Idai Expected to Hit Mozambique as Strongest Storm in Decade

Mar 12 2019 // The strongest tropical cyclone in at least a decade is expected to make landfall in Mozambique at the end of the week, bringing devastating winds and floods to the central coastline.The storm, named Idai, has already...

Deadly Alabama Tornado Highlights Human Safety Risk Despite Improved Forecasting

Mar 11 2019 // Sometimes in forecasting tornadoes, you can get everything technically right, and yet it all goes horribly wrong.Three days before the killer Alabama tornado struck, government severe-storm meteorologists cautioned that...

Trump Visits Alabama to Survey Damage from Powerful Tornado

Mar 11 2019 // Standing near the slab that’s all that is left of one family’s garage, President Donald Trump on Friday surveyed the devastation wrought by a powerful tornado that ripped through a rural Alabama town, uprooting...

36 Tornadoes Confirmed in Deadly Southeast Outbreak

Mar 8 2019 // The number of tornadoes confirmed to have touched down in a deadly weekend outbreak across the Southeast has risen to at least 36. Survey teams for the National Weather Service found evidence of the twisters in Alabama,...

Improved Tornado Forecasting Doesn’t Prevent All Deaths

Mar 8 2019 // Sometimes in forecasting tornadoes, you can get everything technically right, and yet it all goes horribly wrong.Three days before the killer Alabama tornado struck, government severe-storm meteorologists cautioned that...

Alabama Tornado Recovery Efforts Begin As Threat of More Storms Looms

Mar 7 2019 // All those listed as missing have been found and searches ended with no additional bodies discovered among the shattered homes, splintered pines and broken lives devastated by a tornado in rural Alabama, leaving the death...

Despite Improved Tornado Forecasting, Deaths Continue

Mar 7 2019 // Sometimes in forecasting tornadoes, you can get everything technically right, and yet it all goes horribly wrong.Three days before the killer Alabama tornado struck, government severe-storm meteorologists cautioned that...

Storm-Lashed South Carolina Reassesses Role of Global Warming

Mar 7 2019 // When he took the job 15 years ago, Horry County Emergency Manager Randy Webster figured his biggest disasters would be wind and surge rolling over his county’s beaches, South Carolina’s top tourist...

Southeast Storm System Spawned 18 Tornadoes, ‘Monster’ EF4 in Alabama

Mar 6 2019 // Picking through the twisted debris that had been her Alabama mobile home, Carol Dean found her wedding dress and a Father’s Day note to her husband reading, “Daddy, I love you to pieces.”Her husband was...

Death Toll Climbs After Tornadoes Strike Southeast

Mar 5 2019 // An apparent tornado roared into southeast Alabama and killed at least 14 people and injured several others Sunday, part of a severe storm system that destroyed homes, snapped trees and unleashed other tornadoes around the...

Virgin Islands Storm Repairs May Be Jeopardized by FEMA, Contractors Dispute

Mar 1 2019 // Companies rebuilding storm-damaged homes in the U.S. Virgin Islands under a federally funded program say they haven’t been paid in months and are threatening to place liens on the houses.The dispute highlights what...

Storm Waters Flood, Cut off California Town

Feb 28 2019 // A California town north of San Francisco was accessible only by boat after a rain-swollen river overflowed its banks inundated it overnight, authorities said Wednesday.“Guerneville is officially an island,” the...

Kentucky Governor Declares State of Emergency After Storms

Feb 28 2019 // Heavy rainfall and extensive flooding have prompted Kentucky’s Republican governor to declare a state of emergency. Gov. Matt Bevin issued the executive order on Monday. The governor’s office says the order...

Tornado Kills 1 in Mississippi; Flooding Threatens Southeast

Feb 26 2019 // Weekend storms raked parts of the Southeast, leaving deaths and injuries in their wake as a tornado smashed into a commercial district in a small Mississippi city and drenching rains fed a rising flood threat.A woman was...

Mudslides Carry Away Homes, Water Rescues Needed in California Storm

Feb 15 2019 // Motorists swam for their lives and residents were rescued from homes sliding downhill as the wettest winter storm of the year triggered floods and mudslides across California on Thursday.In Sausalito, just across the...

January’s U.S. Storms, Australia Floods Bring Economic Damages Near $2B: Aon

Feb 11 2019 // Multiple winter storms and extreme cold led to 45 deaths and cost the U.S. economy $1 billion during January, according to Aon’s Global Catastrophe Recap – January 2019.The report listed the winter storm events in...

Dutch Authorities Raise Number of MSC’s Containers Lost in North Sea Storm

Feb 7 2019 // Dutch authorities say a freight ship lost dozens more containers than previously thought when it was caught in a heavy storm early this year.The Dutch water authority said Wednesday that at least 345 containers fell off...

Lawmakers Need to Decide Nature of Texas Windstorm Insurer, Sunset Commission Says

Feb 4 2019 // To be the insurer of last resort for wind and hail insurance along the Texas coast — without state support and reliant on premium dollars and debt financing for funding, or to be a true insurance company that derives...