All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 25 2016 // President Barack Obama has signed a disaster declaration for 11 Kansas counties hit hard by last month’s severe storms and flooding.The declaration means federal funding is now available for state and eligible local...
Oct 24 2016 // Willis Re, the reinsurance division of Willis Towers Watson, has collaborated with SpatialKey Inc. to launch a new European Windstorm app.“This powerful new event response application integrates data from multiple...
Oct 21 2016 // Typhoon Haima made landfall in China after it brushed past Hong Kong, forcing the city’s stock exchange to cancel trading for the day and airlines to suspend flights.The Hong Kong Observatory said it will consider...
Oct 20 2016 // More than 90,000 people were evacuated after Typhoon Haima left vast areas of the Philippines flooded and without electricity as the strongest storm to hit the nation this year heads toward China.Haima, a Category 5 super...
Oct 20 2016 // Florida’s streak of dodging hurricanes is over, but the state-created fund that helps private insurers pay out claims after a storm remains in strong financial shape. Anne Bert, the chief operating officer of the...
Oct 19 2016 // The Philippines raised the storm alert for two northern provinces to its highest level as authorities moved people to safer ground, canceled work and suspended flights before Super Typhoon Haima is due to make landfall as...
Oct 18 2016 // Volunteers who worked to keep residents safe when a tornado ripped through a coastal Oregon town are now assessing the damage.The Oregonian/OregonLive reported that no one was hurt or killed by the tornado that ripped...
Oct 17 2016 // A tornado struck an Oregon beach town, sending debris flying and toppling power lines and trees as strong winds and heavy rain walloped the Pacific Northwest over the weekend, according to the National Weather...
Oct 17 2016 // A division of the federal government says the city of Louisville, Miss., should repay a $25.4 million grant awarded for recovery from a 2014 tornado.However, state Auditor Stacey Pickering said he is working with federal...
Oct 14 2016 // Hurricane Nicole made a direct hit on Bermuda Thursday as the strongest hurricane to affect the Atlantic archipelago in 13 years, according to a report issued by Weather Underground.The storm’s impact on Bermuda has...
Sep 28 2016 // Estimates of flood damage from last week’s flood are rising in Waseca, Minnesota, officials say, and in neighboring South Dakota weekend storms damaged homes in the Oglala area.In Minnesota, Waseca County’s...
Sep 27 2016 // Damage from flooding in eastern North Carolina approached the level of destruction left behind by Hurricane Irene in 2011, Gov. Pat McCrory said Friday.But instead of the hurricane’s storm surge, the cause of this...
Sep 26 2016 // Two tornados touched down hundreds of miles apart in Utah, damaging about two dozen buildings and knocking out power to thousands of people, the National Weather Service Confirmed.The severe weather on Thursday also...
Sep 20 2016 // Blue tarps that still cover hundreds of storm-damaged homes in Houston — including some houses battered by Hurricane Ike in 2008 — could finally be gone thanks to a new city program that’s promising to perform...
Sep 15 2016 // Tropical Storm Julia weakened into a depression and is expected to meander off the coast of Georgia and South Carolina for the next few days, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Thursday.Julia is located about 60...
Sep 13 2016 // Some ranchers are revisiting their insurance policies following a South Dakota Supreme Court ruling that allows a family in Quinn to collect insurance for cattle that drowned during a blizzard in 2013.The unanimous ruling...
Sep 12 2016 // The National Weather Service is confirming that at least four tornadoes swept through east-central Illinois.Personnel from the weather service’s Lincoln office are surveying damage Saturday in Champaign and...
Sep 12 2016 // Indiana Gov. Mike Pence says the U.S. Small Business Administration has approved low-interest disaster loans for tornado-stricken Howard County. Pence said that the contiguous counties of Cass, Carroll, Clinton, Tipton,...
Sep 2 2016 // A Kokomo, Ind. official says more than 60 mature trees at the city’s Highland park were uprooted during last week’s tornado.Parks and Recreation Superintendent Randy Morris told the Kokomo Tribune most of the...
Sep 1 2016 // Over the past several months, the Northeastern U.S. has experienced abnormally dry conditions leading to a drought that could last into the fall. Now, it is facing a different problem with the looming risk of heavy rain...