Latest Windstorm Headlines
All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
More Storms. Less Damage. But 2019’s Slow Hurricanes Leave Sense of Foreboding.
Nov 30 2019 // The Atlantic Ocean has spawned lots of storms this season while doing much less damage than prior years. But warming waters promise trouble ahead. The 2019 Atlantic hurricane season, which ends Nov. 30, has been the eighth...
Winds in the Sierras Reach 94 Mph Ahead of Big Snow Storm
Nov 27 2019 // Dangerous winds in the Sierra toppled a semi-trailer truck, downed power lines and closed a stretch of highway in Southern California on Monday ahead of a winter storm expected to bring up to 2 feet of snow to mountain...
Post-Tornado ‘Green’ Rebuild Considered a Mixed Success in Greensburg, Kansas
Nov 27 2019 // A dozen years after a tornado nearly wiped out Greensburg, Kansas, city leaders acknowledge that the decision to rebuild as “the greenest community in America” has been a mixed success. The E-5 tornado on May...
Farewell 2019 Atlantic Hurricane Season: 18 Storms, 6 Hurricanes
Nov 27 2019 // The 2019 Atlantic hurricane season, which ends on November 30, was marked by tropical activity that churned busily from mid-August through October, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
Vermont Seeks Storm Damage Assessment of Private Property
Nov 26 2019 // Vermont is asking the Federal Emergency Management Agency to assess damage to private property from a storm beginning on Halloween to determine if the state qualifies for federal aid for homeowners and renters. The state...
Insurance Claims from Tornado in Missouri’s Jefferson City Exceed $170M
Nov 25 2019 // State insurance officials say Jefferson City, Missouri, residents made more than $170 million in insurance claims after a tornado hit the city on May 22. KMIZ reports Missouri Department of Insurance data shows insurers...
Texas Windstorm Insurer’s Actuarial Committee Recommends 5% Rate Hike
Nov 20 2019 // When the board of directors of Texas’ property insurer of last resort for wind and hail along the Texas coast meets in December, its members will be considering a 5% rate increase recommended by the...
Australia Warned to Expect More Fire Tornadoes
Nov 19 2019 // Fire tornadoes are set to become a more common feature of the Australian landscape as climate change takes hold later this century. That’s according to new research from the University of New South Wales’s...
Texas Warns of Insurance Deductibles Scam Following Dallas Storms
Nov 18 2019 // Texans with property in locations that were hit by the severe weather that swept through Dallas and North Texas on Sunday, Oct. 20 are now targets of a scam involving insurance deductibles, insurance regulators say. The...
As Texas Windstorm Insurer Mulls Rates, Policyholders, Lawmakers Strongly Oppose Hikes
Nov 15 2019 // Texas’ property insurer of last resort for wind and hail in counties along the Gulf Coast is finding itself once again between a rock and a hard place — or perhaps more appropriately, between a hurricane and a...
Scientists Focus On Wiregrass Region of Alabama, Georgia for Tornado Study
Nov 14 2019 // Tornado researchers want to know more about how tornadoes form from squall lines in the Wiregrass region of Alabama and Georgia. That part of the South is of interest to Chris Weiss, a professor of atmospheric science at...
Texas Windstorm Insurer Actuarial Committee to Meet Again for Rate Review
Nov 12 2019 // The Actuarial & Underwriting Committee of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) will meet Tuesday, Nov. 19 at 1:30 pm for review and possible action regarding development of recommendations to the...
FEMA Teams Assessing Storm Damage in Vermont
Nov 6 2019 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency is in Vermont assessing flood and wind damage from a recent storm. Vermont Emergency Management Director Erica Bornemann requested the preliminary damage assessment to determine if...
Texas Mutual Donates $100K to Community Foundation for Dallas Tornado Recovery
Nov 4 2019 // Workers’ compensation insurer, Texas Mutual Insurance Co. has donated $100,000 to Communities Foundation of Texas (CFT), the state’s largest community foundation. The donation, which will go toward CFT’s...
Severe Halloween Storms Cause Tornado, Kill 1 in Tennessee
Nov 4 2019 // Officials say severe storms that moved through Tennessee on Halloween knocking down trees and power lines led to the death of a man. The Knoxville Police Department tweeted on Friday that 79-year-old George Walker was...
Insurer Group: Dallas Tornado Outbreak Costliest in Texas History
Nov 4 2019 // The nine confirmed tornadoes that hit the Dallas, Texas-area late on Sunday, Oct. 20 have caused an estimated $2 billion in damage, an insurer trade group says, making it the costliest tornado loss in Texas history. The...
South Dakota Governor Requests Disaster Declaration for Tornadoes, Floods
Nov 1 2019 // Gov. Kristi Noem is requesting a presidential disaster declaration for the damage caused by tornadoes and floods that struck southeastern South Dakota in September. Noem made her request in a letter to President Donald...
Higher Limits of Liability for 2020 Disapproved for Texas Windstorm Insurer
Nov 1 2019 // In mid-October, Texas Insurance Commissioner Kent Sullivan denied a request by the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) to raise its maximum liability limits for new and renewal policies with an effective date of...
Texas Warns of Insurance Deductibles Scam Following Dallas Storms
Oct 30 2019 // Texans with property in locations that were hit by the severe weather that swept through Dallas and North Texas on Sunday, Oct. 20 are now targets of a scam involving insurance deductibles, insurance regulators say. The...
Womack Named Vice Chair, Morrison Secretary-Treasurer at Texas Windstorm Insurer
Oct 30 2019 // The board of directors of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) have elected two individuals to fill the recently vacated executive positions of vice chair and secretary-treasurer. TWIA public representative...
