Latest Windstorm Headlines
All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Storm Damages Pa.’s Carnegie Science Center
Aug 20 2007 // A violent storm that swept through Pittsburgh last week incurred hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage to the city’s Carnegie Science Center, a spokesman for the center said. Officials are still assessing...
Tropical Storm, Hurricane a Wake-up Call for Coastal Residents
Aug 16 2007 // Tropical Storms Erin and Dean should serve as a wake-up call to anyone living along the Texas coast that hurricanes may not be too far away. “There is no better time than now to prepare evacuation plans and gather...
N.D. Storms Cause $1 Million in Damage
Aug 15 2007 // North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven is asking President Bush to issue a disaster declaration for Cass and Steele counties to help them recover from July 15 storms. Hoeven said in a statement on Monday that preliminary...
Gray Lowers Hurricance Forecast to 4 Intense Storms
Aug 8 2007 // Noted hurricane researcher William Gray from Colorado State University has lowered his 2007 forecast slightly, citing cooler water in the Pacific and more atmospheric dust from Africa in predicting 15 named storms and...
Washington Firefighters Gain Ground on Blazes but Await Lightning Storm
Jul 16 2007 // Firefighters tried to contain several dozen lightning-caused fires in Washington state on Saturday, as more thunderstorms swept through the region. Close to 2,700 lightning strikes were reported in Washington and Oregon on...
Texas Approves $1 Billion in Reinsurance for Windstorm Pool
Jul 13 2007 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) in early June submitted a proposal to the Texas Department of Insurance for the purchase of $1.5 billion in reinsurance under a three-tiered program. On July 11, Texas...
Ore. Storm Damages Crops
Jul 11 2007 // A severe thunderstorm damaged alfalfa, potato and strawberry crops in southern Oregon. Several alfalfa fields in Malin, where the crop had been more than 4 feet tall, were sheered, as though cut by mowers, the (Klamath...
Kan: Flooding, Blizzards, Tornadoes Cause Millions of Dollars in Damage
Jul 10 2007 // The first half of 2007 has been one to forget for many Kansans as blizzards, deadly tornadoes and now flooding have caused millions of dollars in damage, disrupted lives and put a dent in the state’s economy. Of the...
Strong Storm Takes off Part of Fla. Restaurant Roof
Jul 9 2007 // Meteorologists are reviewing radar data and videotapes to determine if a tornado tore off part of a restaurant roof during an intense weekend storm in Port Orange, Fla.. No one was hurt when the storm ripped off part of...
Federal Court to Hear Nationwide’s Miss. Katrina Storm Surge Appeal
Jul 6 2007 // A federal appeals court has set Aug. 6 as the date to hear arguments on whether Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. should be forced to cover storm surge damage to a Mississippi’s couple’s home from Hurricane...
Chertoff, Governors Appeal for Coast Residents to get Storm Ready
Jul 2 2007 // Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff joined governors from Mississippi and Alabama in appealing for Gulf Coast residents to get prepared for the height of hurricane season. Some 400 delegates to the three-day...
FEMA Gets 16,000 Aid Requests from N.J. for April Storm Damage
Jun 28 2007 // Federal Emergency Management Agency officials received grant applications from nearly 16,000 New Jerseyans whose homes were flooded in April. Monday. June 25, was the deadline to apply. FEMA approved nearly $17 million in...
Montana Storms Unlikely To Receive FEMA Aid
Jun 27 2007 // A preliminary assessment of storm damage to public structures in Montana’s Valley and Musselshell counties and on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation came to about $226,600, which is not enough to qualify for federal...
UK’s Met Office Predicts 7-13 North Atlantic Tropical Storms
Jun 21 2007 // The Met Office, the UK’s official weather forecasting center, (http://www.metoffice.gov.uk.) has forecast 10 tropical storms in the North Atlantic during the July to November period, with a 70 percent chance of there...
Kan. Commissioner Says Insured Storm Losses for May Total $230 Million
Jun 20 2007 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger says the 2007 storm season in Kansas so far has accumulated $230 million in losses of insured property and crops during the month of May 2007. “We experienced a terrible...
Storms of 2007
Jun 18 2007 // The National Hurricane Center has identified the names that will be used during 2007 to designate storms. Names of storms that are particularly destructive or deadly are retired and replaced. Names beginning with the...
From Andrea to Wendy – the names of this year’s storms
Jun 18 2007 // 8 Storms of 2007 State has until October to decide on no-fault’s fate 8 Fla. extends police, firefighter workers’ comp benefits Eases eligibility for first responders 10 S.C. reforms workers’ comp...
Inland businesses can be hurt when coastal storms strike
Jun 18 2007 // It took O’Charley’s regional operations director in Hattiesburg, Miss., most of a week to get in touch with the restaurant chain’s Nashville headquarters after Hurricane Katrina pounded the Gulf Coast two...
Storms of 2007
Jun 18 2007 // The National Hurricane Center has identified the names that will be used during 2007 to designate storms. Names of storms that are particularly destructive or deadly are retired and replaced. Names beginning with the...
U.S. Extends Aid to Conn. Property Owners for April Storm Damage
Jun 15 2007 // The federal government has extended aid to private property owners to help repair damage caused by a powerful nor’easter in April. The decision, announced by Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s office, is a reversal of the...
