Latest Windstorm Headlines
All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oklahoma Firm: Blanket Provides Protection from Tornado Debris, Bullets
Jun 10 2014 // An Oklahoma company has created a protective blanket that developers say could give children a better chance of surviving debris from a tornado – or bullets from a 9 mm handgun. The Bodyguard Blanket, made by...
Storm Kills Six in Germany as Hottest Holiday Ends in Tragedy
Jun 10 2014 // A thunderstorm that swept through large parts of Germany on Monday night left as many as six people dead and 30 seriously injured as a holiday marking the feast of the Pentecost ended in tragedy. A 28-year-old cyclist from...
Officials: Tornado in Western Iowa Causes Damage in Oakland
Jun 9 2014 // Weather officials say a strong tornado touched down last week in western Iowa’s Pottawattamie County. The National Weather Service says investigators surveying debris concluded an EF-2 tornado landed June 3 about...
Midwest Hit by Damaging Hail Storms, Tornadoes
Jun 5 2014 // Baseball-sized hail pummeled homes and cars in Nebraska and Iowa on June 2 as powerful thunderstorms moved through a swath of Midwest states, also causing severe flooding and prompting reports of tornadoes. The National...
Sales of Storm Shelters Surge in Mississippi
Jun 5 2014 // Before April 28, two suppliers of storm shelters reported an average of four to 10 orders a month in 2014. They say that since then they’ve each sold more than 100 and that it could be several months before they...
Revised PERILS’ Loss Estimate from Windstorm Xaver Exceeds $1 Billion
Jun 5 2014 // PERILS AG has released its third loss estimate for windstorm Xaver, a storm which affected Western and Northern Europe on December 5-6, 2013. Windstorm Xaver is also known as Sinterklaasstorm in the Netherlands, Bodil in...
Federal Officials Announce 6 Projects to Protect N.Y., N.J. From Storm Damage
Jun 4 2014 // A system of dikes around the tip of lower Manhattan, and water pumps and parks across the Hudson River in New Jersey were among the projects selected Monday to receive nearly $1 billion in federal funding as part of...
Texas Windstorm Insurer’s Financial Outlook Improved as Hurricane Season Starts
Jun 3 2014 // Low catastrophe activity and claims experience so far this year have helped to put Texas’ insurer of last resort for properties along the Gulf Coast in a better position to face the 2014 hurricane season than it has...
Backers of Oklahoma School Storm Shelters not Giving Up
Jun 2 2014 // It’s been a little more than a year since seven children were killed when a massive tornado destroyed Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, but their families are still no closer to the goal of placing storm...
Weather Service: North Dakota Tornado Was EF-2
May 30 2014 // A rare North Dakota tornado that critically injured a 15-year-old girl and hurt eight other people at a workers’ camp in the heart of the state’s booming oil patch packed winds that peaked at 120 mph, the...
New Texas Windstorm Rules Establish Method for Issuing Bonds
May 29 2014 // New rules posted by Texas insurance regulators on May 23 implement a process by which bonds may be issued on behalf of the state’s wind insurer of last resort for properties along the Texas coast. The Texas...
Insurers See Claims Rising in Pennsylvania Following Last Week’s Hail Storm
May 29 2014 // Some insurers say they are seeing an increased volume of claims in Pennsylvania following last Thursday’s freak hail storm that caused widespread damage in communities in the eastern part of the state. State Farm...
New York Tornado Almost Hit Stored Fireworks
May 29 2014 // The tornado that touched down in rural eastern New York last week nearly caused a big bang. The owner of a fireworks business said the EF3-rated twister narrowly missed steel storage containers with thousands of pounds of...
North Dakota Tornado Tears Through Oil Patch, Injures 9, Destroys Trailers
May 28 2014 // Investigators headed to western North Dakota on May 27 to assess the strength of a tornado that injured nine people, including a 15-year-old girl who suffered critical injuries, and damaged or destroyed 15 trailers at a...
Technology Changing Perceptions of Tornadoes, Damages
May 28 2014 // Experts say that advances in technology, particularly social media, are changing how people watch for severe weather and how quickly images of the damage can be shared. John Robinson, the warning coordinator for the...
Arkansas Governor: $68.7M in Damage Claims Following Tornadoes
May 27 2014 // The office of Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe says $68.7 million in damage claims have been filed for individual and commercial entities in Faulkner, Pulaski, Randolph and White Counties following the April 27 tornadoes. The...
Penn. Insurance Department Taking Steps to Assist Consumers After Hail Storm
May 27 2014 // Pennsylvania’s insurance department said last Friday it has taken steps to help consumers after a hail storm caused widespread damage in communities in eastern Pennsylvania. The department said it will allow...
Oklahoma Gov. Fallin-Backed School Storm Shelter Plan Dies in Senate
May 27 2014 // The Oklahoma Senate has killed a proposal backed by Gov. Mary Fallin that would have called for a statewide vote allowing some school districts to increase property taxes to pay for safety upgrades like storm shelters and...
Rural Eastern Idaho Visited by Small Tornado
May 23 2014 // Authorities say a small tornado in a rural area of eastern Idaho caused no damage or injuries. The National Weather Service says the twister touched down at 6:40 p.m. Wednesday about 10 miles northwest of American Falls...
Colorado Bracing for Possibility of More Storms, Tornadoes
May 22 2014 // Meteorologists say six tornadoes touched down east of Denver on Wednesday and more spring thunderstorms are expected Thursday along the Front Range and eastern Colorado. No significant damage was reported from the twisters...
