All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 20 2017 // Travelers Cos. was burned again by Mother Nature.Alan Schnitzer has been contending with volatile weather since becoming chief executive officer in late 2015, extending a trend of recent years in which storm seasons last...
Apr 20 2017 // Officials estimate a February storm that cut power to thousands of homes in Teton County, Wyo. and prompted a disaster declaration caused nearly $3 million in damages.The Jackson Hole News and Guide reported Nancy Casper...
Apr 19 2017 // A windstorm that hit parts of southern Ontario on March 8, 2017 has caused almost C$100 million (US$73.4 million) in insured damage, according to the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC), which quoted a report from Catastrophe...
Apr 17 2017 // Severe weather in March led to significant damage in the central and eastern United States, racking up more than $2 billion in insured losses, according to a report published by Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s...
Apr 13 2017 // The initial estimate of insured property market losses for extratropical cyclone Zeus, which mainly hit France on March 6-7, is €192 million (US$200 million), according to PERILS, the independent Zurich-based...
Apr 12 2017 // The revised estimate of property insurance losses for Windstorm Egon, which hit France and Germany on Jan. 12-13, 2017, is €234 million ($243 million), according to PERILS AG, the independent Zurich-based company that...
Apr 11 2017 // The Texas Department of Insurance is looking for people to serve on the board that governs the Fair Access to Insurance Requirements (FAIR) Plan, which provides residential property insurance in underserved areas where...
Apr 7 2017 // A tornado with wind speeds of up to 120 mph caused damage to a fire station, elementary school and several other buildings in southwest Missouri, the National Weather Service said.Meteorologist Mike Griffin said the...
Apr 7 2017 // The National Weather Service confirms that a tornado struck southwest Mississippi on Monday.A survey showed that a twister with top winds of 110 mph (175 kph) touched down just inside Franklin County at 12:57 a.m. It moved...
Apr 6 2017 // The initial estimate of insured property market losses for extra-tropical cyclone Thomas, which hit the British Isles, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany on Feb. 23-24, 2017, is €213 million (US$222.7 million),...
Apr 4 2017 // Powerful storms that killed two in Louisiana took aim at Alabama and other parts of the Southeast on April 3, bringing strong winds and heavy rains to the region.A tornado flipped a mobile home on April 2 in Bruex Bridge,...
Mar 30 2017 // Storms that bore down on Southern Plains states brought powerful winds that upended a tractor-trailer on an Oklahoma interstate, killing the driver, while three storm chasers died in a collision as they raced toward a...
Mar 29 2017 // The long-term recovery agency in Hattiesburg, Miss., R3SM, is still getting some of its people in place, but officials with the organization say it is ready to take on the huge job of leading three of the four counties hit...
Mar 16 2017 // Concerns about falling temperatures and icy conditions on roads and sidewalks across the Northeast followed a late-season storm that plastered the region with sleet and snow.Tuesday’s powerful nor’easter...
Mar 16 2017 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller is offering tips to consumers whose home or automobile may have sustained damage from this week’s winter storm, according to a press release issued by the...
Mar 14 2017 // Warnings have been posted in much of West Virginia for up to a foot of snow from a late-season storm. The National Weather Service said snow was expected to start Monday night and last in some places through early...
Mar 14 2017 // The National Weather Service says two tornadoes apparently hit far western Kentucky, where transportation officials say roads will reopen overnight.Meteorologist Jim Packett in Paducah says officials surveyed damage in...
Mar 13 2017 // Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead made his the 28th state to enact legislation designed to protect homeowners who have suffered damage as a result of a hailstorm from being victimized a second time by storm-chasing contractors.The...
Mar 9 2017 // Officials say they’re on schedule to open the new home base for the U.S. government’s “hurricane hunter” aircraft before the Atlantic hurricane season begins.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
Mar 8 2017 // A severe storm system has pummeled parts of the Midwest with tornadoes, huge hailstones and powerful winds, damaging nearly 500 buildings and injuring a dozen people in one Missouri city.The Storm Prediction Center in...