Latest Windstorm Headlines
All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Storms Leave Trail of Destruction in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas
May 1 2017 // Severe storms including tornadoes have swept through several small towns in East Texas, leaving a trail of overturned vehicles, mangled trees and damaged homes. Authorities believe as many as five people were killed and...
Storm Damage Assessors Rely on Waffle House’s 24-Hour Service Policy
Apr 28 2017 // The emphasis on 24-hour service at Waffle House — hurricane or shine — has earned the company a reputation among professional emergency managers, who make rough estimates of storm damage by looking to the local eatery....
Eastern Newfoundland Windstorm Costs Insurers US$32.5M
Apr 27 2017 // A windstorm that hit eastern Newfoundland on March 11, 2017 has resulted in almost C$45 million (US$32.5 million) in insured damage, according to the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC), quoting statistics from Catastrophe...
2 Tornadoes Confirmed in Mississippi From Weekend Weather
Apr 27 2017 // The National Weather Service confirms two tornadoes hit Mississippi’s northeast corner on Saturday. A survey shows that a twister with top winds of 90 mph (145 kph) struck Prentiss County around 2:35 p.m. The...
North Carolina Storms Cause Flood Worries
Apr 27 2017 // People in North Carolina were paying attention to rising rivers on Tuesday after storms dumped several inches of rain across much of the state – the worst drenching since a damaging hurricane late last year. The...
Tornado, Hail Losses Hurt Travelers in Q1
Apr 20 2017 // Travelers Cos. was burned again by Mother Nature. Alan Schnitzer has been contending with volatile weather since becoming chief executive officer in late 2015, extending a trend of recent years in which storm seasons last...
Wyoming County February Storm Caused $2.8M in Damage
Apr 20 2017 // Officials estimate a February storm that cut power to thousands of homes in Teton County, Wyo. and prompted a disaster declaration caused nearly $3 million in damages. The Jackson Hole News and Guide reported Nancy Casper...
Insured Damage for Southern Ontario Windstorm Estimated at US$73.4M
Apr 19 2017 // A windstorm that hit parts of southern Ontario on March 8, 2017 has caused almost C$100 million (US$73.4 million) in insured damage, according to the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC), which quoted a report from Catastrophe...
Aon: Insured Losses Likely to Exceed $2B from March Storms, Wildfires
Apr 17 2017 // Severe weather in March led to significant damage in the central and eastern United States, racking up more than $2 billion in insured losses, according to a report published by Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s...
Insured Losses for Europe’s Storm Zeus Estimated at US$200M: PERILS
Apr 13 2017 // The initial estimate of insured property market losses for extratropical cyclone Zeus, which mainly hit France on March 6-7, is €192 million (US$200 million), according to PERILS, the independent Zurich-based...
Insurance Costs for Windstorm Egon Rise to €234M ($243M): PERILS
Apr 12 2017 // The revised estimate of property insurance losses for Windstorm Egon, which hit France and Germany on Jan. 12-13, 2017, is €234 million ($243 million), according to PERILS AG, the independent Zurich-based company that...
