Best Read Windstorm Headlines
Headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page with the most time spent reading.
#1 Fires, Storms and Blazing Heat Forecast for Western US
Aug 11 2025 // Fires, storms and the potential for near-record high temperatures across the western US are in the offing for the coming week. The Gifford Fire, about 125 miles (201 kilometers) northwest of Los Angeles, had burned 114,621...
#2 Explorers Discover Wreckage of Old Cargo Ship That Sank in Lake Superior Storm
Mar 14 2025 // Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great technological feat set sail on the Great Lakes. The Western Reserve was one of the first all-steel cargo ships to traverse the...
#3 Wisconsin Severe Storms Cause Flooding, Knock Out Power
Aug 12 2025 // Flash flooding canceled the final day of the Wisconsin State Fair on Sunday as continued heavy rainfall in half a dozen Midwest states forced motorists to abandon their vehicles, cut power to thousands of households and...
#4 Why Some Storms Brew to Extreme Dimensions in the Middle of America
Apr 10 2025 // A powerful storm system that stalled over states from Texas to Ohio for several days in early April 2025 wreaked havoc across the region, with deadly tornadoes, mudslides and flooding as rivers rose. More than a foot of...
#5 More Tornadoes Plow Through Central US, Leaving Thousands Without Power
May 20 2025 // More tornadoes plowed through the central U.S. on Monday and thousands were without power as people from Texas to Kentucky continued to clean up from days of severe weather that killed more than two dozen people and...
#6 Nowhere in America Is Safe From Climate-Fueled Storms and Fires
Oct 4 2024 // Forecasters had warned for days that Hurricane Helene was likely to cause widespread devastation. But when the powerful storm struck Florida and barreled through the eastern US last week, killing more than 180 people and...
#7 Missouri Special Session to Include Discussion on Aid for Tornado Victims
May 29 2025 // Missouri lawmakers are to kick off a special session Monday to consider aid for tornado victims and a package of financial incentives aimed at keeping the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals from leaving the state for new or...
#8 Storms in Nebraska Kill 1, Displace Hundreds of Inmates
Aug 11 2025 // Strong storms before dawn Saturday in eastern Nebraska killed one person and seriously injured another in a state park and displaced hundreds of inmates after two prison housing units were damaged, officials said, even as...
#9 Coastal Cities Have a Hidden Vulnerability to Storm Surge – Caused by Humans
Oct 18 2024 // Centuries ago, estuaries around the world were teeming with birds and turbulent with schools of fish, their marshlands and endless tracts of channels melting into the gray-blue horizon. Fast-forward to today, and in...
#10 1 Dead, Several Injured When More Storms Rip Through Kentucky, Southeast
Jun 2 2025 // SPRINGFIELD, Ky. (AP) — Another storm hit parts Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia and Virginia Friday, killing one person and injuring seven others. In Kentucky, Washington County Judge-executive Timothy Graves said two...
#11 Strong Storms in Upper Plains and Midwest Damage Buildings, Cause Power Outages
Jul 31 2025 // Strong storms that brought hurricane-force winds to an area stretching from the Upper Plains to the Midwest have been preliminarily classified by the National Weather Service as a derecho, defined as a long-lived line of...
#12 With Back-to-Back Storms, Florida Now Facing Delays in Claims Adjusting
Oct 10 2024 // With Hurricane Milton now expected to produce several hundred thousand wind-damage claims and with the storm coming so soon on the heels of Hurricane Helene, industry leaders are bracing for significant delays in claims...
#13 More Tornadoes, Fewer Meteorologists Make for a Dangerous Mix
May 27 2025 // As nasty tornadoes popped up from Kansas to Kentucky, a depleted National Weather Service was in scramble mode. The agency’s office in Jackson, Kentucky, had begun closing nightly as deep cuts by Elon Musk’s...
#14 Bill Would Move Storm Modeling, Research From FIU to FSU Insurance Supercenter
Mar 18 2025 // Florida International University has long been known as a hurricane research center. Think: the famous Wall of Wind, the giant fan system that tests the effects of 157-mph winds on structures and materials. A much larger,...
#15 While FEMA Faces Overhaul, Mississippi Tornado Survivors Wait for Assistance
May 22 2025 // More than two months after a tornado demolished his Mississippi home, Brian Lowery still sifts through the rubble, hoping to find a tie clip his mother gave him, made from the center stone of her wedding band. “I...
#16 Multiple Deaths, Damage in South, Midwest From Winds, Tornadoes
Mar 17 2025 // Violent tornadoes ripped through parts of the U.S., wiping out schools and toppling semitractor-trailers in several states, part of a monster storm Friday and Saturday that has killed at least 32 people. The number of...
#17 Mutually Beneficial: How One Midwest Mutual Insurer Recovered From Financial Storms
Sep 24 2024 // When Iowa mutual GuideOne Insurance began assessing ways to add an infusion of capital to strengthen its balance sheet, the company went to the usual places a mutual of its size might turn to for financial...
#18 Would Letting Roofers Do More Wind-Mitigation Work Help Reduce Florida’s Insured Losses in Storms?
Nov 18 2024 // A recent photograph of destruction left by Hurricane Milton’s wind tells the story: An entire roof section on a residential complex in Bradenton, Florida – including rafters and ceiling joists – was...
#19 Fourth Storm in 14 Months Takes Aim at West Florida. Citizens Most Exposed
Oct 7 2024 // Another day, another hurricane. That may be the thought in the minds of thousands of Floridians as Hurricane Milton makes its way toward the west coast of Florida – the fourth hurricane in 14 months to target the...
#20 Storm Damage Costs Are Often a Mystery. That’s a Problem for Understanding Risk
Jun 6 2025 // On Jan. 5, 2025, at about 2:35 in the afternoon, the first severe hailstorm of the season dropped quarter-size hail in Chatham, Mississippi. According to the federal storm events database, there were no injuries, but it...
