Latest Windstorm Headlines
All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Hurricane Odile Brings Storm Surge, Flooding to Mexican Peninsula
Sep 15 2014 // Hurricane Odile, the strongest to hit Baja California Sur in decades, weakened slightly as it battered the Mexican peninsula with high winds and rain. Odile went ashore near the resort city of Cabo San Lucas at about 10:45...
Texas Windstorm Insurer to Offer $500M of Unrated Debt: Muni Deals
Sep 15 2014 // Texas Windstorm Insurance Association this week is offering $500 million in unrated municipal debt as the Austin-based group girds for the hurricane season through November. The association, created by the Texas...
Solar Storm Headed for Earth But Only Slight Effects Expected
Sep 12 2014 // A strong solar flare is blasting its way to Earth, but the worst of its power looks like it will barely skim above the planet and not cause many problems. It has been several years since Earth has had a solar storm of this...
Post-Tornado Teardowns Continue in Mississippi City
Sep 12 2014 // Tupelo, Mississippi officials say they’re deciding whether to require demolition of buildings damaged by the April 28 tornado on a case-by-case basis. Last week, the City Council ordered the owner of the Comfort...
Northern Missouri Hit by Heavy Rains, Tornadoes
Sep 11 2014 // A heavy rain storm has left much of northern Missouri facing low-level flooding and cleaning up mostly minor damage caused by tornadoes and high winds. The National Weather Service says 10 inches of rain was reported in...
Austin to Buy Out 300 More Storm-Flooded Homes
Sep 11 2014 // Leaders of a Central Texas city have approved a $3.5 billion annual budget that includes buying out about 300 more homes in flood-prone areas. The Austin City Council on Tuesday approved next year’s budget and...
Dewhurst to Lawmakers: How About Shutting Down Texas Windstorm Insurer?
Sep 11 2014 // Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has asked state lawmakers to consider shutting down a windstorm insurance provider for coastal Texans. Dewhurst asked a state Senate committee to look at phasing out the Texas Windstorm...
Atlantic Hurricane Season Peaks with No Named Storms
Sep 11 2014 // The statistical peak of the Atlantic hurricane season has arrived and for the first time since 2000 there isn’t a named storm in the basin. While forecasters are watching a pair of potential candidates, neither is...
Tropical Storm Odile in Pacific Threatens Mexico
Sep 11 2014 // Tropical Storm Odile off the west coast of Mexico is forecast to become a hurricane tomorrow. Odile, with top winds of 50 miles (80 kilometers) per hour, was 210 miles southwest of Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico, moving west at 2...
NYC Mayor Announces $108M for Storm-Hit Brooklyn Housing Project
Sep 9 2014 // Almost two years after Superstorm Sandy struck, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Sept. 5 that a storm-damaged Brooklyn housing project will get $108 million in federal relief, and said he expects Sandy funds...
Storm Clouds on the Reinsurance Horizon despite Record Capital
Sep 9 2014 // As the reinsurance industry prepares for its annual get together in Monte Carlo next week, a number of analytical reports have appeared, which show that, despite some significantly good numbers for the first six months of...
Montana Governor Declares Disaster From August Storms
Sep 8 2014 // Montana Gov. Steve Bullock has issued a disaster declaration for three counties, the town of Ekalaka and the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation after severe weather damaged property and infrastructure. Officials from the...
Hawaii’s Post-Storm Disaster Request Denied by FEMA
Sep 8 2014 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency in late August denied Hawaii’s request for a major disaster declaration after Tropical Storm Iselle. Iselle made landfall over the Big Island’s isolated and rural Puna...
Over 1,300 Claims Filed After Revere Tornado
Sep 8 2014 // The Massachusetts Division of Insurance (DOI) said that as of Aug. 27, the state’s insurers have received more than 1,300 claims from a rare tornado that ripped through the coastal city of Revere on July 28. The DOI...
Tropical Storm Dolly Moves Ashore off Gulf of Mexico
Sep 4 2014 // Heavy rains from Tropical Storm Dolly threatened flash floods and mudslides in mountainous areas as it moved in from Mexico’s Gulf coast, where authorities had readied shelters and suspended school classes on...
Storms Trigger Tornadoes, Hail, Floods Throughout Midwest
Sep 3 2014 // A storm spotter was hospitalized in Iowa on Sept. 1 after he was struck by lightning while watching a system that left swollen rivers, power outages, trees down and campers overturned. More strong storms rumbled through...
Oklahoma’s Low Tornado Count Result of Cold Weather, Experts Say
Sep 3 2014 // Oklahoma’s extremely cold winter last year and earlier this year likely kept the number of tornadoes this past spring at the state’s lowest levels since 1988, weather experts say. Only 13 tornadoes hit the...
Hawaii’s Post-Storm Disaster Request Denied by FEMA
Sep 2 2014 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency late last week denied Hawaii’s request for a major disaster declaration after Tropical Storm Iselle. Iselle made landfall over the Big Island’s isolated and rural Puna...
Mass. DOI: Insurers Received Over 1,300 Claims From Revere Tornado
Aug 27 2014 // The Massachusetts Division of Insurance (DOI) said the state’s insurers have so far received more than 1,300 claims from a rare tornado that ripped through the coastal city of Revere on July 28. The DOI said...
Pacific Hurricane Marie Weakens to Category 1 Storm; No Warnings in Place: NHC
Aug 27 2014 // The most recent report from the National Hurricane Center in Miami, at 8:00 P.M. PDT, indicates that Hurricane Marie is “gradually weakening over colder water.” The storm, located around 1190 kms [740 miles]...
