All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 16 2016 // A preliminary storm survey determined a tornado that hit the east-central Montana town of Baker last weekend reached the EF-3 level, matching the strongest tornadoes ever recorded in the state, the National Weather Service...
Jun 14 2016 // Several people were injured and one person had to be rescued after a tornado destroyed several homes and damaged a dozen others over the weekend in Baker in eastern Montana.National Weather Service meteorologist Wright...
Jun 14 2016 // Low-interest disaster loans are available for people with damage from February’s storms to pay for repairs.The U.S. Small Business Administration loans are available to homeowners, renters, business owners and...
Jun 14 2016 // When John Couch is certain a storm will hit Hatteras Island, he goes into action, moving merchandise in his auto parts store from bottom shelves to top ones and hauling away the most valuable items.But at 64 years old,...
Jun 10 2016 // A week into June and two tropical storms have drenched the U.S. South. Perhaps it would be a good time to stock up on duct tape, plywood and sandbags.Unfortunately, using the first few weeks to predict the rest of the...
Jun 8 2016 // A tornado tore through the northeast of Hamburg on Tuesday evening, blowing off the roofs of several buildings, uprooting dozens of trees and damaging cars and a power line as storms that have raged across Europe this...
Jun 8 2016 // The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has expanded the footprint of the latest insurance catastrophe to include the east coast of Victoria and Tasmania’s northern and eastern coastlines.The declaration increases...
Jun 7 2016 // Catastrophe modeling firm, AIR Worldwide, reports that over the last several weeks, much of Texas has experienced 400 percent to 600 percent of long-term average rainfall amounts.The storms have subsided for now, but...
Jun 7 2016 // Tropical Storm Colin moved out to sea early Tuesday after knocking out power to thousands, prompting Florida Governor Rick Scott to declare a state of emergency. The threat of a storm surge flooding shifted to the Atlantic...
Jun 6 2016 // A disorganized Tropical Storm Colin in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to cross Florida overnight threatening evacuations in the state’s northern and central regions before striking the Georgia and South Carolina...
Jun 6 2016 // The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has declared an insurance catastrophe after the storms that pounded the east coast of Queensland and New South Wales (NSW) over the weekend.By Monday, June 6, insurers had received...
Jun 3 2016 // The insured property loss estimate for floods that hit the UK from Dec. 4 to 24, 2015, following Storm Desmond and other low pressure systems, has been revised to £597 million ($861.4 million), according to PERILS, the...
Jun 1 2016 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.Current projections for the 2016 hurricane season indicate that an average or slightly greater-than-average number of storms are expected compared with the 30-year...
Jun 1 2016 // More than 6.8 million homes on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts are in danger of hurricane storm surge damage. The total cost for reconstruction of the homes located in 19 states and the District of Columbia is more than $1.5...
Jun 1 2016 // For forecasters trying to better pinpoint the havoc of storms, the future begins next year.That’s when the test phase for the new GOES-R satellite should be complete, providing the National Weather Service with an...
May 27 2016 // A storm that would be named Bonnie threatens holiday cookouts and celebrations along the U.S. coast from North Carolina to Georgia over the Memorial Day weekend.If the low-pressure system now northeast of the Bahamas...
May 27 2016 // New storm surge maps for the Outer Banks of North Carolina will be available this summer.The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk reported that the National Hurricane Center will release the maps to predict where and how deep...
May 26 2016 // Crews were evaluating the damage Wednesday after tornadoes destroyed several homes and left two people critically injured in western Kansas as a series of severe storms swept across the Plains.Meanwhile, one person drowned...
May 25 2016 // Flood damage in Britain from winter storms has resulted in claims for more than 15,000 homes and businesses and is likely to lead to pay-outs of 1.3 billion pounds ($1.9 billion), the Association of British Insurers...
May 24 2016 // Severe storms that crossed South Dakota led to reports of at least three tornadoes, including one that caused damage.The National Weather Service says a tornado in Tripp County on Sunday evening prompted reports of downed...