Latest Windstorm Headlines
All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Louisiana Tornado Confirmed by Weather Service
May 4 2016 // The National Weather Service confirms that a tornado hit rural parts of northern St. Landry Parish and southern Avoyelles Parish in Louisiana on Saturday. Forecaster Jonathan Brazzell said Sunday that the Weather Service...
TDI: Back-to-Back Texas Storms Prompt Questions on Deductibles
May 3 2016 // The Texas Department of Insurance reported it has been getting questions about deductibles after back-to-back storms hit the North Texas area. Insurers have the ability to make decisions on deductibles on a case-by-case...
University of Alabama Partners With Industry on Tornado Preparedness Guide
May 2 2016 // The Alabama Center for Insurance Information and Research at The University of Alabama Culverhouse College of Commerce has partnered with the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, the Alabama Department of...
Kansas Tornado Damages 10 Homes, Destroys Trailer
Apr 27 2016 // The National Weather Service is surveying damage from a northern Kansas tornado that left two people with minor injuries, damaged about 10 homes and destroyed a trailer. National Weather Service meteorologist Brian...
FEMA: $30M in Disaster Assistance Going to Texas Following March Storms
Apr 27 2016 // More than $29.9 million in federal and state aid to date is helping the residents of 13 Texas counties recover from the severe storms, tornadoes and flooding in March, the Federal Emergency Management Agency...
Central U.S. States Hit with Tornadoes, Strong Storms
Apr 27 2016 // A powerful spring storm brought strong winds and baseball-sized hail to several central states on April 26, with tornadoes spotted in Kansas and Oklahoma as the severe weather marched east, forecasters said. The storm...
A.M. Best: Texas Hail Storm Damage Poised to Exceed 9-Year U.S. Average
Apr 26 2016 // A.M. Best says year-to-date 2016 results in Texas alone appear to have already met the nine-year average for hail storm damage in the United States. According to Best’s Briefing, titled, “Texas Hail Storm...
2016 Atlantic Hurricane Season Should See Normal Activity of 12 Names Storms: CSU
Apr 25 2016 // The coming Atlantic hurricane season should produce a near-average 12 named storms before it ends in November, according to Phil Klotzbach, lead author of the pioneering Colorado State University forecast. At least five of...
Travelers Profit Drops 17% in Q1 Due to Texas Storms
Apr 21 2016 // The Travelers Companies Inc. reported net income of $691 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2016, down 17 percent from $833 million in the prior year quarter. Operating income in the current quarter was $698 million...
San Antonio Storm Costliest Hail Event in Texas History
Apr 20 2016 // More than 110,000 vehicles and thousands of homes in Texas regions of north San Antonio and Bexar County were pelted by large hail in what will become the costliest hailstorm in Texas history, according to the Independent...
Texas Inundated as Storms Dump More than a Foot of Rain
Apr 18 2016 // A slow moving weather system has dumped up to 20 inches of rainfall west and northwest of Houston causing flooding and travel cancellations, the Insurance Council of Texas reports. Heavy rain primarily east of Austin has...
Agents Storm Capitol Hill
Apr 18 2016 // Independent insurance agents and brokers from all 50 states convened in Washington, D.C., last week for the biggest and most effective industry gathering of its kind: the Big “I” Legislative Conference. Our...
Mississippi Granted $13.3M for Storm Recovery, More Counties Eligible for Aid
Apr 18 2016 // Mississippi’s disaster declaration due to the March flooding and severe storms has been extended to 13 additional counties. Gov. Phil Bryant said at the beginning of April that 11 counties were added, followed by two...
33 Tornadoes Hit Mississippi in First 3 Months of 2016
Apr 13 2016 // The first three months of 2016 were more active than usual in terms of severe weather in Mississippi. Ed Tarver, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Jackson, tells The Hattiesburg American the cause is...
Disaster Loans Available to Florida Businesses Affected by Tornadoes
Apr 13 2016 // The U.S. Small Business Administration is accepting applications for low-interest disaster loans for Florida Panhandle businesses and residents affected by tornadoes and storms in February. The loans are available for...
Texas Windstorm Insurance Assoc. Expert Panel to Meet April 14
Apr 11 2016 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association expert panel will hold a public meeting this week to inform the public about the progress of the panel’s work, to allow the public to observe the panel discussing its work,...
Weather Service Confirms Alabama Hit by 7 Tornadoes
Apr 11 2016 // The National Weather Service says storm surveys show seven tornadoes skipped across central Alabama late Wednesday and early Thursday. No one was seriously hurt and most of the twisters were weak, causing only scattered...
U.S. Storms in March Will Cost Insurers $2 Billion: Aon Benfield’s Cat Report
Apr 7 2016 // Insurers face a $2.0 billion bill following seven severe storm events across multiple states in March, according to Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development team. Overall economic losses...
Tornadoes Leave Damage Behind in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi
Apr 4 2016 // Strong storms plowed through Georgia on their way to the Carolinas Friday, spawning at least one confirmed tornado, after setting off tornadoes that swirled through Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. The National Weather...
Weather Service Confirms Arkansas Tornado
Apr 4 2016 // The National Weather Service says a tornado touched down earlier this week in Dermott, Ark. about 115 miles southeast of Little Rock near the Mississippi border. Meteorologist Anna Wolverton at the weather service’s...
