Latest Windstorm Headlines
All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
New York City Deploys Drones to Warn About Storms
Aug 9 2024 // Gone is the bullhorn. Instead, New York City emergency management officials have turned high-tech, using drones to warn residents about potential threatening weather. With a buzzing sound in the background, a drone...
Severe Storms (Mostly in US) Account for 70% of Global Insured Natural Disaster Losses
Aug 8 2024 // Global insured losses from natural catastrophes totaled US$60 billion during the first half of 2024, or 62% above the 10-year average, according to preliminary estimates from Swiss Re. Severe thunderstorms (mainly in the...
Virginia Declares State of Emergency in Anticipation of Tropical Storm Debby
Aug 7 2024 // Governor Glenn Youngkin declared a state of emergency for Virginia based on National Weather Service and National Hurricane Center forecasts that indicate the state could see significant rainfall and flooding from Tropical...
Small Tornado Briefly Swept Into Buffalo, Damaging Buildings, Scattering Tree Limbs
Aug 7 2024 // A small tornado took Buffalo by surprise Monday, damaging buildings, flipping cars and sending debris swirling over downtown. A spiraling column was caught on multiple videos shortly before 1 p.m. One video showed the cell...
3 Emerging Risks: Severe Convective Storms, Battery Energy Storage and Drones
Aug 5 2024 // There’s something very human about attempting to master nature itself. We live in an uncertain time, however — one in which unpredictable weather patterns make it increasingly difficult to protect our property...
Storms Bring Flash Floods to Dollywood Amusement Park in Tennessee
Jul 31 2024 // PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (AP) — Strong thunderstorms brought flash flooding to Dolly Parton’s Dollywood in east Tennessee. Park workers and the Pigeon Forge police and fire departments directed guests to safety on...
Rebuilding Rome: Upstate New York City Looking Forward After Destructive Tornado
Jul 30 2024 // A tornado that hit this small, upstate city tore off rooftops, leveled brick buildings and toppled the steeples of two historic churches. No one was killed, but the twister left a debris-strewn scar through downtown and...
ZestyAI Receives Texas Approval to Use Severe Convective Storm Products
Jul 26 2024 // ZestyAI, a provider of climate and property risk analytics solutions powered by artificial intelligence (AI), announced it has received approval for use in rating and underwriting from the Texas Department of Insurance for...
Maine Provides Waterfront Communities With $21 Million to Rebuild From Winter Storms
Jul 25 2024 // Maine is providing more than $21 million in grants to help dozens of waterfront communities rebuild from a series of devastating storms this past winter. The storms brought flooding, damage and power outages to the...
How a Perfect Storm Sent Church Insurance Rates Skyrocketing
Jul 25 2024 // The Rev. John Parks was taking his first sabbatical in 40 years of ministry when he got a call from his church’s accountant with some bad news. Church Mutual, the church’s insurance company, had dropped...
US Severe Storms Continue to Drive Global Natural Disaster Losses: Gallagher Re
Jul 22 2024 // US severe convective storms (SCS) continued to drive global natural catastrophe losses during the first half of 2024. Of the estimated $61 billion in global H1 insured losses from natural disasters, US SCS accounted for a...
Storms Pummel Large Swath From Ozarks and Plains to New York and New England
Jul 19 2024 // LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Another wave of severe storms pummeled a wide swath of the United States and Canada leading to flash floods and water rescues Wednesday in the Ozark Mountains, dropping a tornado that ravaged a...
Reckitt Sales to Be Hit by Tornado at Indiana Warehouse
Jul 17 2024 // Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc said sales will be affected by a tornado that struck a warehouse in Mount Vernon, Indiana, where it stores products and raw ingredients for its baby formula business. The consumer goods company...
Record Flooding and Tornadoes This Spring In Iowa Caused $130M in Damage
Jul 17 2024 // DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Record flooding and powerful tornadoes ravaged parts of Iowa for weeks this spring, destroying or damaging thousands of homes, closing roads and bridges and costing over $130 million in...
Beryl’s Remnants Spawned 4 Indiana Tornadoes, Including an EF-3: NWS
Jul 15 2024 // MOUNT VERNON, Ind. (AP) — The remnants of Hurricane Beryl spawned at least four tornadoes in Indiana, including an EF-3 twister with winds as high as 140 mph (225 kph) that tore through a small city in the state’s...
Insurers Hike Rates as Extreme Storms Like Beryl Proliferate
Jul 12 2024 // Destructive storms like Hurricane Beryl that knocked out power to 3 million homes and businesses in Texas are growing more frequent and intense, and insurers are jacking up rates in response. That could mean big profits...
Hurricane Beryl’s Remnants Spawn Severe Storms in Midwest and Northeast
Jul 12 2024 // INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The remnants of Hurricane Beryl dropped tornadoes and threatened flooding Wednesday as the system churned into Canada and the northeastern U.S. after leaving millions in the Houston area without...
South Africa Storms in Western Cape Cause Damage to 35,000 Homes
Jul 12 2024 // Storms that pounded South Africa’s Western Cape province have led to flood damage affecting more than 35,000 households in the city of Cape Town, Executive Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis said. “We’ve got more...
How the Hot Water That Fueled Hurricane Beryl Foretells a Scary Storm Season
Jul 3 2024 // Hurricane Beryl’s explosive growth into an unprecedented early whopper of a storm shows the literal hot water the Atlantic and Caribbean are in right now and the kind of season ahead, experts said. Beryl smashed...
House Collapses Into Flood-Swollen River Near Minnesota Dam Amid Storms
Jun 28 2024 // DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A house that was teetering on the edge of an eroding riverbank near a Minnesota dam collapsed into the river in the latest jarring example of extreme weather gripping the upper Midwest. Video...
