Latest Windstorm Headlines
All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Habitat Plans Building Blitz in Indiana Tornado Zone
Jun 29 2012 // Habitat for Humanity organizers are planning a construction blitz to build 19 new houses for southern Indiana families who lost their homes in the tornadoes that struck in March. The group hopes to recruit about 3,000...
Colorado’s Early June Storms Among State’s Most Costly
Jun 27 2012 // New insurance claim estimates from the hail, wind and flooding that wreaked havoc on June 6 from South Denver down to Colorado Springs and again on June 7 in Northern Colorado and the Eastern Plains made it the...
More Than 73,000 Without Power in Virginia Following Monday’s Storm
Jun 27 2012 // More than 73,000 Dominion Virginia Power customers in the Richmond area remain without electricity following a powerful storm that blew over trees, damaged buildings and downed power lines. Media outlets report that the...
Tropical Storm Debby Makes Landfall in Florida Near Steinhatchee
Jun 26 2012 // Tropical Storm Debby made landfall near Steinhatchee, Florida on Tuesday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. It is the first tropical storm of 2012 to form in the Gulf of Mexico. “Debby is expected to weaken to...
Tropical Storm Debby Tracking Slowly Towards Florida’s West Coast: AIR
Jun 26 2012 // According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, as of 8 a.m. today, Tropical Storm Debby was still a weak tropical storm on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, but it was drenching northern Florida and parts of...
Federal Funds Available for Vermont for May 29 Storm, Flash Flooding
Jun 26 2012 // Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin said the state’s request for a federal disaster declaration following damage caused by heavy rains, winds and flash flooding from May 29 has been approved by President Barack Obama.Vermont...
RMS Update on Tropical Storm Debby in Florida
Jun 26 2012 // Catastrophe modeling firm Risk Management Solutions (RMS) issued the following update on Tropical Storm Debby this morning, Tuesday, June 26: Over the last 24 hours, Tropical Storm Debby (located over the northeast Gulf of...
Tropical Storm Debby Drenches Florida
Jun 26 2012 // Tropical Storm Debby whipped Florida with bands of drenching rain Monday while its center was nearly stationary in the Gulf of Mexico. Its slow progress meant the most pressing threat from the storm was flooding, not...
AIR Worldwide Comments on Tropical Storm Debby
Jun 25 2012 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide issued the following advisory on Tropical Storm Debby this morning: According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, Tropical Storm Debby is the fourth named storm of the 2012...
RMS Comments on Tropical Storm Debby
Jun 25 2012 // Catastrophe modeling firm Risk Management Solutions (RMS) issued the following advisory on Tropical Storm Debby this morning: Tropical storm winds and heavy rain are affecting the northeast Gulf States as Tropical Storm...
Tropical Storm Debby Heads for Florida Coast, Spares Louisiana
Jun 24 2012 // Tropical Storm Debby meandered slowly to the Florida coast on Sunday, bringing strong winds and waves that forced the closure of about a quarter of offshore oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico and spawning...
Storm Threat Prompts Oil Companies to Evacuate Some Gulf Staff
Jun 22 2012 // Energy companies began evacuating non-essential personnel from operations in Gulf of Mexico on Friday due to the threat of a weather system in the region developing into a tropical cyclone. Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and...
CL&P, Connecticut’s Largest Utility, Fights Official Over Storm Costs
Jun 20 2012 // Connecticut Light & Power struck back Monday at Attorney General George Jepsen, who asked state regulators to punish the state’s largest utility for its response to two storms last year. In a filing with the...
Boeing Lauds Tornado Recovery by Key Kansas Supplier
Jun 20 2012 // Top Boeing Co. executives were in Wichita, Kan., on June 18 to celebrate tornado recovery efforts by parts supplier Spirit AeroSystems, telling thousands of cheering employees that the event forged a stronger bond between...
Tropical Storm Chris Forms in Atlantic; No Threat to Land
Jun 20 2012 // The National Hurricane Center in Miami is currently tracking Tropical Storm Chris, the third named storm of the current Atlantic hurricane season, but it does not expect it to cause any damage on land. According to the...
Tropical Storm Irene’s Scars Healing in Adirondacks, Catskills in N.Y.
Jun 19 2012 // A replacement for one of the most well-traveled and iconic bridges in the Adirondack High Peaks was completed and opened to hikers Sunday as crews continue to repair backcountry trail damage from Tropical Storm Irene in...
Willis Re Reports on Impact of ‘RMS v11’ European Windstorm Model Changes
Jun 18 2012 // A report from Willis Re notes that “UK insurers may see increases of up to 97 percent in their capital requirement for catastrophe exposures under Solvency II rules when making calculations under the new Risk...
Habitat to Build Homes for Tornado Victims
Jun 18 2012 // Habitat for Humanity is planning to build nine houses in Indiana for residents displaced by tornadoes. Madison’s local planning commission recommended that the city council rezone 1.25 acres of former city property...
Tornadoes Sweep Through Va., Penn. Counties
Jun 18 2012 // Tornadoes swept through several counties in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Maryland earlier this month, knocking down trees and power lines and damaging dozens of structures and homes, according to The Associated Press....
NYC Faces Greatest Financial Risk From Storms: CoreLogic
Jun 18 2012 // When people think of hurricane damage they usually think of Miami or New Orleans, but a new report suggests the greatest financial risk of all may be much farther north: the greater New York City area. Data analysis firm...
