All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 6 2015 // More than 6.6 million homes on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts are at risk of hurricane storm surge with a total reconstruction cost value estimated to be nearly $1.5 trillion, according to a recently released report.The...
Jul 6 2015 // More than 6.6 million homes on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts are at risk of hurricane storm surge with a total reconstruction cost value estimated to be nearly $1.5 trillion, according to an annual report released by...
Jul 1 2015 // The National Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado touched down in St. Charles County, Mo., last weekend. A strong stormed rolled through the St. Louis region Sunday night. The weather service says an EF-2 tornado...
Jun 29 2015 // President Barack Obama has issued a disaster declaration for nine Arkansas counties because of recent storms, tornadoes and flooding.The declaration makes federal funds available for temporary housing and home repairs,...
Jun 29 2015 // Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide has updated its hurricane model for the U.S. to help insurers and reinsurers better understand and quantify the risk from hurricanes.The update features a hydrodynamic storm...
Jun 25 2015 // Powerful storms that thundered through eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Connecticut downed trees and power lines, leaving nearly 400,000 customers without electricity and disrupting mass transit service Wednesday.In...
Jun 24 2015 // A series of severe thunderstorms that pushed damaging winds and tornados into several parts of Michigan on Monday and Tuesday wrecked homes and knocked out power to thousands of people, officials said.From Monday afternoon...
Jun 24 2015 // At least seven people were injured as severe thunderstorms that swept across northern Illinois spawned a tornado, damaged homes and uprooted trees.Particularly hard hit Monday night was Coal City, a community of...
Jun 22 2015 // Thousands of Texans have sought government help in the weeks since deadly storms and flooding devastated parts of the state.The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced June 20 that more than 17,500 individuals have...
Jun 18 2015 // Tropical Storm Bill wrung out almost 12 inches of rain over parts of eastern Texas, was downgraded to a depression and then handed off from the National Hurricane Center to the Weather Prediction Center.That doesn’t...
Jun 16 2015 // Tropical Storm Bill came ashore on the Texas mainland this morning near Seadrift, packing heavy rains that will drop as much as 10 inches along the coast.Bill’s winds were 60 miles (97 kilometers) per hour, up from...
Jun 15 2015 // The Atlantic’s second storm of the year may be developing over the Yucatan Peninsula, with the potential to reach Texas and Louisiana and flood Houston for the second time in a month.Thunderstorms moving northwest...
Jun 15 2015 // Differences of opinion on the never-ending problem of what to do about property insurance along the coast had lawmakers from coastal areas pitted against inland representatives in the waning days of the Texas legislative...
Jun 12 2015 // Storms moving through multiple states at the end of May including Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas, have resulted in more than 9,000 claims already filed across multiple states for Farmers Insurance.Farmers expects to...
Jun 12 2015 // Many residents of tornado-ravaged Delmont, S.D., don’t plan to come back, and the community is looking for ways to pull through.About 200 people live in the town, and “it looks like maybe half will...
Jun 10 2015 // Researchers trying to figure out what makes some hurricanes strengthen into catastrophic monsters have a new lab that allows them to generate tropical storm conditions with the flip of a switch.The lab is at the University...
Jun 8 2015 // A tornado ripped through the Nevada town of Hawthorne on Friday afternoon, damaging homes and businesses, causing scattered power outages and temporarily shutting down a highway, authorities said. No injuries were...
Jun 8 2015 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.Although the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts have been spared any significant hurricane damage over the past two years, it should not be perceived as the new normal. New...
Jun 5 2015 // Two years ago on May 20, an EF 5 tornado touched down in Moore, Oklahoma, 4.4 miles west of Newcastle. The powerful twister, with wind speeds reaching 210 miles per hour, cleared a path of destruction stretching 14 miles...
Jun 5 2015 // Texas windstorm insurer of last resort for coastal counties has released its annual report, which it says shows the practices and procedures of the organization have improved greatly since 2011.That was the year the Texas...