All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 30 2018 // The Florida Department of Financial Services’ Disaster Fraud Action Strike Team (DFSAT) have been deployed across the state to protect Floridians from post-storm fraud that could occur in the aftermath of Tropical...
May 28 2018 // Violent hailstorms ravaged parts of the Bordeaux and Cognac wine regions of southwest France on Saturday, doing major damage to hundreds of vineyards with thousands of hectares of vines destroyed, producers said on...
May 25 2018 // Meet Alberto, the first named storm of 2018.The sub-tropical storm off Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula is expected to bring heavy rain to western Cuba and much of Florida early next week, the National Hurricane Center in...
May 25 2018 // The Florida fund that helps private insurers pay out claims after a hurricane remains in good shape heading into a storm season.Despite losses from Hurricane Irma, estimates show the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund will...
May 23 2018 // A Vermont town says preliminary repair estimates for an old railroad causeway and bridge across a section of Lake Champlain are $563,000 after it was heavily damaged by a storm earlier this month.The May 4 storm caused the...
May 23 2018 // North Carolina’s emergency management chief acknowledged a laborious process for homeowners seeking federal funds for repairs due to Hurricane Matthew and is looking for improvements looking to the next storm.While...
May 22 2018 // The National Weather Service in Tulsa says a possible tornado touched down in north-central Oklahoma.Meteorologist Joe Sellars says the potential twister was only on the ground briefly Saturday afternoon between the towns...
May 18 2018 // Mark Fox cringes every time he relives the day his worst weather nightmare came true.April 3, 2012, was a hot and humid day in North Texas, and the unstable atmosphere spawned 17 tornadoes in five hours in the Dallas-Fort...
May 17 2018 // Residents in the Northeast cleaned up Wednesday, a day after powerful storms pounded the region with torrential rain and marble-sized hail, leaving at least three people dead and more 200,000 homes and businesses without...
May 16 2018 // The risk of cyber attack, once overhyped, now threatens businesses’ very existence. Its severity varies significantly with geography: For example, inherent cyber risk has climbed in France over the past year while...
May 14 2018 // Massachusetts regulators are investigating whether ride-hailing company Uber violated state law by increasing prices during a powerful storm in March.The Boston Herald reports that the Department of Public Utilities, which...
May 11 2018 // The National Weather Service says a preliminary investigation indicates a small tornado caused damage in southwestern Wisconsin.A barn and machine shed were destroyed near Fennimore Wednesday afternoon. Several other...
May 11 2018 // When Hurricane Sandy hit the U.S. East Coast in October 2012, its 80-mile-per-hour winds and the resulting flooding did about $71 billion in damage. After the storm, researchers found that natural coastal ecosystems saved...
May 11 2018 // President Donald Trump has approved a request from North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper for a federal disaster declaration for tornado damage in Guilford and Rockingham counties. Cooper declared a state of emergency for Guilford...
May 10 2018 // The massive hail storm that pummeled Colorado’s northern Front Range a year ago generated nearly $900 million more in damage than first estimated, as claims from homeowners doubled in the months that followed.The...
May 10 2018 // During April, five separate storm systems caused severe thunderstorms across the United States, the strongest of which affected the Plains, Midwest, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, and the Northeast, with nearly 70 tornado...
May 9 2018 // The board of directors of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association has authorized staff to seek regulatory approval for a $175 million assessment to TWIA’s insurance company members for losses associated with...
May 2 2018 // Dozens of insurance companies are now offering discounts to Oklahomans who have built or retrofitted their homes to certain tornado-resilient standards, the Oklahoma Insurance Department announced.A new law went into...
May 1 2018 // A fire fueled by strong winds extensively damaged a grain elevator in Wisconsin’s Brown County.The fire broke out about 11:30 a.m. Sunday in Mina. Because of 40 to 45 mph winds, smaller fires caused by blowing,...
May 1 2018 // This year’s weather on the Southern Plains has an odd twist: Oklahoma has yet to record its first tornado, the deepest into the year it’s gone without one since 1962.Although a drought has dried up moisture...