Latest Windstorm Headlines
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Fewer Storms Forecast for 2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season
Apr 25 2012 // Fewer Storms Forecast for 2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season The 2012 Atlantic hurricane season is projected to be less active than in recent years with 11 tropical storms, six of which will intensify into hurricanes, U.S....
N.Y. Gov. Cuomo Announces Storm Aid for L.I. Counties
Apr 24 2012 // New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the state is providing $8.5 million to Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island. The money will be used to pay expenses from damage done last year by Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm...
Tornado Cost Wichita, Kansas Area $146.3M
Apr 23 2012 // Sedgwick County, Kansas, officials say the tornado that hit Oaklawn and southeast Wichita on April 14 caused an estimated $146.3 million in damage. County officials say the tornado damaged or destroyed 776 homes and 86...
South Texas Residents Drying Out after Storm
Apr 19 2012 // Residents living north of Corpus Christi in the Portland/Gregory communities are in the process of drying out following a 15-inch rainfall on April 16. Gregory, with a population of 2,500, reported 80 percent of its homes...
Kansas Aviation Museum Damaged by Weekend Storms
Apr 18 2012 // The Kansas Aviation Museum in Wichita is closed this week to clean up from damage it sustained during the weekend storms. Museum director Lon Smith estimated the museum suffered between $100,000 and $150,000 in damage. But...
Tornado Damage in Wichita, Kansas, Interrupts Aircraft Industry
Apr 18 2012 // Tornado damage in Kansas’ aircraft manufacturing hub could have a ripple effect on the industry, analysts have warned, even as airplane makers Boeing and Hawker Beechcraft and nearby parts maker Spirit AeroSystems...
Deadly Oklahoma Tornado Traveled about 31 Miles
Apr 18 2012 // A tornado that killed six people in northwestern Oklahoma traveled about 31 miles and had winds of 136 to 165 mph at its peak. The National Weather Service on April 16 assigned a preliminary EF-3 Enhanced Fujita scale...
Forecasters Assign EF-1 Rating to Arkansas Tornado
Apr 18 2012 // The National Weather Service in Little Rock has given a tornado that caused damage in central Arkansas a preliminary rating of EF-1. Meteorologists surveyed an area of Van Buren County on April 16 and found a 2.3-mile...
6th Death Due to Oklahoma Tornado Is Confirmed
Apr 17 2012 // Woodward County (Oklahoma) Emergency Management Director Matt Lehenbauer says a sixth person has died as a result of injuries suffered in a deadly tornado. Lehenbauer say the man died on the night of April 15 in an...
Michigan Volunteers Work on Alabama Storm-Damaged Houses
Apr 17 2012 // A group of 70 volunteers from Michigan recently installed floors and insulation and did a myriad of repairs to five tornado-damaged houses in Pleasant Grove and Birmingham’s Pratt City community. The group was made...
Midwest Towns Say Early Storm Warnings Saved Lives
Apr 17 2012 // The television was tuned to forecasters’ dire warnings of an impending storm when Greg Tomlyanobich heard a short burst from a tornado siren blare after midnight on April 15. Then silence. Then rumbling. The...
Tornado Outbreak: Authorities Say 5 Dead in Oklahoma, 29 Injuries
Apr 16 2012 // Tornadoes raking communities across the Midwest and Plains left five people dead and at least 29 injured in Oklahoma, damaging a hospital, homes and other buildings as a vast severe weather front plunged eastward on April...
Storm Dumps Waist-High Hail in Texas Panhandle
Apr 16 2012 // Maintenance crews worked on April 12 to clear roads after a storm dumped several inches of hail on parts of the Texas Panhandle, trapping motorists in muddy drifts that were waist-to-shoulder high. The storm left so much...
South Texas Storm Racks Up Millions in Claims
Apr 16 2012 // Hurricane force winds, heavy rains and baseball size hail struck the northern part of McAllen, Texas, on March 29 causing extensive damage to homes, cars and businesses. The damage is expected to be in the tens of millions...
Risk Not Confined to Tornado Alley
Apr 16 2012 // Tornado Alley is typically considered to encompass mainly the Great Plains states and surrounding areas. However an analysis by analytics firm CoreLogic shows that tornado risk actually extends across most of the eastern...
April in Texas: Tornadoes, High Winds and Hail
Apr 16 2012 // Damages Estimates Climb A line of thunderstorms and isolated super cells that moved into the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area in the early afternoon on April 3, 2012, produced numerous tornadoes and large hail...
Irene Retired from Tropical Storm Name List
Apr 15 2012 // Irene is being retired from the list of storm names because the 2011 hurricane killed 49 people and caused more than $15 billion in damage. A report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the name...
State Auto Estimates Q1 Storm Impact Could Reach $21M
Apr 13 2012 // Ohio-based State Auto Financial Corp. has estimated first quarter 2012 results will include between $19 million and $21 million in pre-tax catastrophe losses. The company announced that the estimate reflects anticipated...
Meteorologist: Tornado Near Stockton, Calif. Not Unusual
Apr 13 2012 // The National Weather Service says the tornado that struck five miles outside of Stockton, Calif. on Wednesday was not unusual for this time of year. The twister on farmland near Interstate 5 left a path of damage about a...
Loss Estimates from North Texas Storms Near $300M, Expected to Rise
Apr 10 2012 // Loss estimates from the widespread tornado, high wind and hail storm activity in the Dallas-Arlington-Fort Worth area on April 3 are approaching $300 million, said one insurance industry spokesperson. That number is...
