All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 7 2016 // The National Weather Service on Feb. 26 updated to 13 the number of tornadoes that hit Louisiana on Feb. 23, including four tornadoes — one an EF-3 — that were responsible for extreme damage in Convent and...
Mar 4 2016 // After tornadoes ravaged the Dallas area in late December, the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) and Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) Fraud Unit worked together to establish a new disaster outreach program, called...
Mar 4 2016 // President Barack Obama has declared that a major disaster exists in 33 Georgia counties following recent severe storms and flooding that affected the state.The White House announced Feb. 26 that federal aid will be...
Mar 4 2016 // PERILS AG disclosed its second, revised loss estimate for the floods which hit the UK from Dec. 4 to 24 following Storm Desmond.The latest estimate of the property insurance market loss is £662 million (933.2 million),...
Mar 4 2016 // Forecasters say a tornado that severely damaged homes and trees in a Birmingham, Ala., suburb has been determined as an EF2, with winds of between 120 and 125 mph. National Weather Service meteorologist Jason Holmes told...
Mar 3 2016 // The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) launched its new FORTIFIED Home–High Wind and Hail programs at the National Tornado Summit in Oklahoma.The programs are designed to help homeowners build...
Mar 3 2016 // A sense of normalcy is returning to St. John the Baptist Parish after a tornado struck the west side of LaPlace last week and damaged more than 500 buildings but remarkably left no one seriously injured.The area hit last...
Mar 3 2016 // Weather researchers say they expect about 40 scientists from around the nation to participate in “VORTEX Southeast,” an upcoming study of the unique characteristics of tornadoes that develop in the South. Like...
Mar 1 2016 // Texas recorded 244 tornadoes last year making it the highest number of twisters to ever touch down in the Lone Star State since the record keeping began in 1950.The tornadoes claimed 17 lives. The violent weather was...
Mar 1 2016 // A passenger from a cruise ship that was battered by a major storm in the Atlantic Ocean filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Royal Caribbean in Miami federal court, his lawyer said Thursday.The lawsuit filed by...
Feb 26 2016 // The National Weather Service updated to 13 the number of tornadoes that hit Louisiana on Feb. 23, including four EF-2 tornadoes that were responsible for the extreme damage in Convent and LaPlace, along with an EF-2 in...
Feb 26 2016 // A major storm system hit several Southeast states this week, bringing high winds and tornadoes to multiple regions and killing at least one person in Mississippi. Injuries and damage were also reported in Florida from an...
Feb 25 2016 // With registered attendees from as far away as Nepal and as nearby as Canada, the 2016 National Tornado Summit to be held next week in Oklahoma City has become an international event.The Oklahoma Department of Insurance,...
Feb 24 2016 // A deadly tornado-spawning storm system swept across the Gulf Coast on Monday and Tuesday, killing at least three people in Louisiana and Mississippi.Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards declared a state of emergency in nine...
Feb 24 2016 // Before the walls shook, before the two-by-fours twisted and the roof began tearing off, Amanda Bose saw news about the tornado on television.“Everybody in the bathroom — right now!” the 36-year-old mother...
Feb 22 2016 // The National Weather Service says four tornadoes touched down throughout south Alabama when severe storms hit the state Feb. 16. Officials say damage surveys after the storms showed that tornadoes ranging between EF0 and...
Feb 18 2016 // Weather service experts are assessing damage from storms that caused problems in several Southeast states.At least six south Alabama counties suffered damage from storms on Monday. The Johnsonville Volunteer Fire...
Feb 11 2016 // Federal transportation officials might soon be looking into a Royal Caribbean cruise ship that ran into high winds and rough seas in the Atlantic Ocean last weekend.Sen. Bill Nelson, D.-Fla., has called for the National...
Feb 5 2016 // The National Weather Service says at least four tornadoes struck rural areas of western Alabama on Tuesday. NWS reports four tornadoes also touched down Tuesday in eastern Mississippi.Officials say an EF2 tornado struck...
Feb 5 2016 // The initial estimate of the insured property market loss for UK flood damage during the period from Dec. 25, 2015 to Jan. 14, is £526 million ($767.7 million), according to PERILS, the independent Zurich-based...