Latest Windstorm Headlines
All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Florida Hurricane Cat Fund Ready for Storm Season
May 22 2017 // The Florida fund that helps private insurers pay out claims after a hurricane continues to be in strong shape ahead of storm season. Estimates prepared by Raymond James show the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund will have...
Residents Assess Damage After Night of Tornadoes in Central U.S.
May 18 2017 // Residents of an Oklahoma subdivision and a Wisconsin trailer park that were leveled by deadly tornadoes sifted through what remained of their homes and possessions Wednesday, even as forecasters warned of another round of...
Tornadoes Leave at Least 2 Dead as Storms Pummel Central U.S.
May 18 2017 // Storms whipped through a wide swath of the nation’s midsection, giving rise to tornadoes that flattened a Wisconsin mobile home park and an Oklahoma subdivision and killing at least two people and injuring dozens of...
PERILS Releases European Windstorm Catalogue (1979-2015)
May 18 2017 // PERILS, the independent Zurich-based organization that provides industry-wide catastrophe insurance data, has released a storm catalogue containing the gust footprints of more than 200 of the largest European windstorms...
Mississippi Gov Seeks Federal Tornado Aid for End of April Outbreak
May 16 2017 // Residents of Holmes and Montgomery counties in Mississippi could get federal help following April 30 tornadoes, if Gov. Phil Bryant gets his way. Bryant on Thursday officially asked that President Donald Trump declare a...
Weather Service Confirms Tornado Touchdown in Owasso, Oklahoma
May 15 2017 // Forecasters say a tornado that hit near Tulsa on May 11 had a preliminary ranking of EF1 with wind speeds of 90 mph to 100 mph. The National Weather Service in Tulsa says more surveys are underway to determine whether any...
Study: Expected Increase in Tornadoes Raises Risk to Mobile Homes
May 15 2017 // Tornadoes and mobile homes don’t mix to begin with, but throw in the volatility of climate change and the potential for massive property damage and deaths is even higher in coming decades, indicates a new study by...
Study: Expected Increase in Tornadoes Raises Risk to Mobile Homes
May 15 2017 // Tornadoes and mobile homes don’t mix to begin with, but throw in the volatility of climate change and the potential for massive property damage and deaths is even higher in coming decades, indicates a new study by...
Storm-Related Arkansas Crop Losses Estimated at $64.5M
May 15 2017 // Flooding and severe weather this year have caused an estimated $64.5 million in damage to Arkansas croplands, according to the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture. Some 937,000 acres of cropland have been...
Insurance Industry-Backed Storm Damage Bill Passes Texas House
May 15 2017 // The passage in the Texas House of a bill limiting liability for property insurance companies sued by policyholders following weather related events has given the insurance industry, which lobbied strongly for the bill,...
2 Tornadoes Confirmed in Atlanta Area
May 9 2017 // Weather officials have confirmed that two Atlanta-area sites were touched by tornadoes on Thursday. The National Weather Service said Friday in a news release that a tornado with winds of 75-85 mph (121-137 kph) touched...
Study Warns of Rising Risk to Mobile Homes from Tornadoes
May 5 2017 // Tornadoes and mobile homes don’t mix to begin with, but throw in the volatility of climate change and the potential for massive property damage and deaths is even higher in coming decades, indicates a new study by...
Correction: Weekend Tornado Count in Mississippi Rises to 24
May 4 2017 // The National Weather Service says it has confirmed that at least 24 tornadoes hit Mississippi during storms on Sunday. Surveyors are expected to continue examining damage Wednesday. So far, meteorologists have confirmed...
Storm Losses Lower Liberty Mutual Profit in Q1
May 4 2017 // Liberty Mutual Holding Company Inc. reported net income of $351 million for the three months ended March 31, 2017, a $42 million or 10.7 percent decline from the same period in 2016. Net written premiums in the quarter...
One Floodgate Fails to Automatically Stop Traffic During Pennsylvania Storm
May 4 2017 // Pittsburgh, Penn., public safety officials are trying to determine why a rain-activated gate failed to automatically stop traffic from entering a low-lying roadway during a storm Monday afternoon. Instead, a police patrol...
Strong Mississippi Storms Spread Destruction Across State
May 2 2017 // One person died and two other people were injured Sunday as strong storms spread across Mississippi, said the Emergency Management Agency. Details of the death near Durant, Mississippi, have not been provided in an area...
Number of Arkansas Storm-Related Fatalities Rises to 5
May 2 2017 // A north-central Arkansas volunteer fire chief died after being struck by a vehicle early on April 30 while working as heavy thunderstorms moved through, one of five confirmed storm-related fatalities in the state, an...
3 Dead in Missouri Storms; Flooding Forces Hundreds of Rescues
May 2 2017 // Torrential rain caused Missouri waterways to burst their banks over the weekend, forcing hundreds of road closures and killing at least three people. Some parts of the state got as much as a foot of rain over the weekend,...
Oklahoma Tornado Shelter Company Owner Faces Felony Embezzlement Charges
May 2 2017 // Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter has filed seven felony counts of embezzlement against William Stephens, who owns Muskogee-based Tornado King Shelters. After the Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Unit...
Strong Storms Hit Alabama On Anniversary of Deadly 2011 Tornado Outbreak
May 1 2017 // The National Weather Service has sent out teams to look for damage and confirm where tornadoes might have touched down in the state. Al.com reports that the weather service was sending survey teams to Montgomery, Lee, Pike...
