Latest Windstorm Headlines

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

A Storm of Claims Likely Following 2017 Hurricane Season

Nov 20 2017 // The aftermath of this year’s hurricanes includes massive reconstruction across the impacted areas, which in turn creates an increased possibility for construction defect claims that would affect the liability...

Historic Indiana Fieldhouse Hit by Storm Insured for Nearly $10M

Nov 17 2017 // A central Indiana fieldhouse that’s one of the nation’s largest high school basketball venues was insured for nearly $10 million when a severe thunderstorm recently damaged it, school officials say.The historic...

Storms Damage Fieldhouse in Muncie, Indiana

Nov 7 2017 // Severe storms that battered parts of Indiana damaged the Muncie Fieldhouse, caused other sporadic damage and brought some flooding. The (Muncie) Star Press reports that part of the brick facade at the top of the Muncie...

Officials: Small Ohio City Hit by Possible Tornado, 8 Injured

Nov 7 2017 // At least eight people have been injured after a possible tornado hit a small Ohio city.Mercer County officials say six people were hurt when a restaurant in Celina was damaged during Sunday’s storms. One person was...

Commissioner Denies Texas Windstorm Insurance Association Request to Raise Liability Limits

Nov 6 2017 // Texas Insurance Commissioner Kent Sullivan in mid-October declined to approve a request by the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association to raise the maximum limits of liability on windstorm and hail policies.TWIA filed a...

Officials Confirm Oklahoma Casino Hit with EF1 Tornado

Nov 6 2017 // Emergency managers say an Oklahoma casino had part of its roof torn off by an EF1 tornado during a concert that the state’s governor was attending in late October.The twister touched down in Cleveland County, one of...

$2.1M in Funding For Montana Town’s Tornado Recovery Efforts

Nov 3 2017 // Montana officials say they have secured $2.1 million in federal disaster aid for ongoing cleanup efforts in the town of Baker where a tornado tore up homes, leaving a lake covered in hundreds of tons of debris.The Billings...

Drought May Have Aided Storm That Walloped Maine, Northeast

Nov 2 2017 // Drought conditions across much of Maine may have contributed to the large numbers of trees that toppled during a storm that walloped the Northeast this week, officials said.The storm cut power to nearly 1.5 million homes...

Severe Weather in Carolinas Brings Tornadoes, Power Outages

Oct 26 2017 // A National Weather Service team confirmed Tuesday that two tornadoes touched down in South Carolina during an outbreak of severe weather that flipped tractor-trailers and small planes, washed out roads and left thousands...

Officials Confirm Oklahoma Casino Hit with EF1 Tornado

Oct 25 2017 // Emergency managers say an Oklahoma casino had part of its roof torn off by an EF1 tornado during a concert that the state’s governor was attending.The twister touched down in Cleveland County, one of several counties...

Oklahoma’s Tornado King Ordered to Return More than $100K in Embezzlement Scheme

Oct 24 2017 // Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter says William Stephens, the owner of Tornado King, a storm shelter manufacturing and installation company, pleaded no contest to six counts of embezzlement and one count of a pattern of...

Governor Evacuated from Beach Boys Concert as Oklahoma Hit with Severe Storms

Oct 23 2017 // Emergency managers and the National Weather Service are surveying damage from storms that spawned as many as four tornadoes in southwest Oklahoma.Meteorologist John Pike says officials were in Tillman, Comanche, McClain...

Texas Windstorm Insurance Association Request to Raise Liability Limits Disapproved

Oct 20 2017 // Texas Insurance Commissioner Kent Sullivan has declined to approve a request by the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association to raise the maximum limits of liability on windstorm and hail policies.TWIA in August filed a...

Joplin School District Still Haggling with FEMA over Cost of Tornado Repairs

Oct 17 2017 // More than six years after a deadly tornado tore through Joplin, Missouri, the heavily damaged local school district has rebuilt.Exactly how much of those costs the district will have to shoulder remains up in the air. The...

Tornado in Oregon Damages Small Planes

Oct 17 2017 // Authorities say that it was a tornado that touched down south of Portland, Ore. last week overturning small airplanes, downing power lines and damaging several glass greenhouses.National Weather Service meteorologists say...

Storm Ophelia Leaves Trail of Destruction in Ireland; Damages Could Reach $1.8B

Oct 17 2017 // Irish authorities will begin to clean up and count the cost of the worst storm to hit the country in more than 50 years, after Ophelia left a trail of destruction in its wake.At least three people died in storm-related...

Texas Windstorm Association Extends Deadline for Post-Harvey Appraisal Requests

Oct 16 2017 // As of Oct. 4, the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA), the insurer of last resort for wind and hail along the Texas coast, had received 68,861 claims related to Hurricane Harvey, which made landfall near Rockport,...

Storm Ophelia Set to Slam Coast of Ireland; Extreme Winds, Flooding Expected

Oct 15 2017 // Irish authorities warned some of the worst weather conditions to hit the country in 50 years will endanger lives, as Storm Ophelia’s remnants batter the coast with “extreme” conditions.Met Eireann, the...

Ireland Readies for Hurricane Ophelia, One of Its Strongest Storms in 50-Plus Years

Oct 13 2017 // Ophelia strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane forecast to strike Ireland, where one of the nation’s strongest storms in half a century threatens everything from farms to a golf course owned by the family of U.S....

Alaska Storm Causes Estimated $10M in Damage

Oct 11 2017 // Damages from a recent storm in Alaska’s North Slope could end up costing more than $10 million, and a damaged road in the nation’s northernmost town could keep whalers from an important subsistence area.North...