Latest Windstorm Headlines
All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Amish Communities Quickly Repair Tornado Damage in Michigan and Indiana
Apr 11 2025 // No contractors, no repair estimates, no haggling with the insurance company: After a tornado struck an Amish community in Michigan, the work was underway even before the National Weather Service could assess the...
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...
AccuWeather: Severe Storms in Central US Cause $80-90B in Damages, Economic Loss
Apr 7 2025 // A multiday severe weather outbreak in the central U.S. caused an estimated $80 billion to $90 billion in total damage and economic loss, according to a preliminary estimate from AccuWeather. From April 2 to April 6, a rare...
Deadly Storms Bring Flooding and Destruction to Central US
Apr 3 2025 // Deadly storms and flooding rains left a path of destruction across 14 states in the US South and Midwest, knocking out power to more than 400,000 customers. Record rain fell in Memphis and eastern Missouri overnight and...
South Texas Storms Expected to Cause Over $100M in Damage
Apr 3 2025 // At 2 a.m. Friday, Rick Saldaña was traveling back to Edinburg from Mercedes, a city about 26 miles away, in an area known as the Mid-Valley. The roads were flooded. The frontage roads that feed into the expressway...
Deadly Storms Bring Flooding and Destruction to Southeast, Midwest
Apr 3 2025 // Deadly storms and flooding rains left a path of destruction across 14 states in the US South and Midwest, knocking out power to more than 400,000 customers. Record rain fell in Memphis and eastern Missouri overnight and...
Severe Storms Batter Greek Islands, With Crete Hit Hardest
Apr 3 2025 // Severe storms battered islands in Greece for a second day on Tuesday [April 1], with Crete experiencing the heaviest rainfall. Authorities on Paros and Mykonos, meanwhile, worked to clear overturned cars and debris...
Severe Storm Threatens Central US With Heavy Rains, Tornadoes
Apr 2 2025 // Heavy rain, severe thunderstorms and the risk of tornadoes are threatening more than 40 million people from Michigan to Texas as a slow-moving cold front hovers over the region. There’s a rare high risk for damaging...
Severe Storms Ravage South Texas, Leaving 3 Dead and Hundreds Stranded
Mar 31 2025 // Drenching rain along the Texas-Mexico border let up Friday, but rescues were still ongoing a day after severe storms trapped residents in their homes, forced drivers to abandon their vehicles on flooded roads and shut down...
Missouri DCI Deploys Specialists to Aid Storm Victims in Phelps County
Mar 25 2025 // The Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance (DCI) said that consumer specialists will participate in a Multi-Agency Resource Center (MARC) to answer insurance questions and help those impacted by the severe storms in...
Spain’s Storms Refill Reservoirs, Easing Nation’s Worst Drought
Mar 25 2025 // Jana, Konrad, Laurence and Martinho — the unprecedented string of four named storms that barreled through the Iberian peninsula in the past three weeks — came with a silver lining: the likely end of Spain’s worst...
Highway Pileup in Kansas Shows How Dust Storms Can Turn Deadly
Mar 21 2025 // A gust of wind sweeps over bare soil, kicking up enough dirt and dust to cut visibility to nearly zero, and for drivers, the dust storm seems to come out of nowhere. Such conditions resulted in a pileup on Interstate 70...
CoreLogic: Approximately 170K Properties Potentially Impacted by Severe Storms
Mar 20 2025 // Approximately 170,000 properties were potentially impacted by the severe outbreak across the Midwest and Mississippi Valley, in addition to wildfires and dust storms across the Southern Plains, CoreLogic said. The early...
Kentucky Allows Unlicensed Adjusters in Three Counties After Storms Batter State
Mar 20 2025 // Unlicensed adjusters can work in three Kentucky counties once they register on temporary basis, the state’s insurance commissioner decreed after wind events caused serious damage in the northern part of the...
Death Toll Rises From Tornadoes, Wildfires and Storms in Multiple States
Mar 18 2025 // Unusually vicious and damaging weather across multiple U.S. states spawned violent tornadoes, blinding dust storms and fast-moving wildfires over the weekend, leaving at least 39 people dead. In the latest tally of the...
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,...
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...
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...
Europe’s Winter Storms Will Get Worse as Emissions Rise, Study Says
Mar 14 2025 // Global carbon emissions are amplifying a North Atlantic wind pattern that drives northern Europe’s biggest winter storms, new research shows. According to projections from scientists at the UK’s Met Office and...
Potent Storm System Threatens Central US
Mar 12 2025 // A potent storm system is expected to pour heavy rain on western states later this week before rumbling into the central United States, where it could spawn tornadoes in the South and dump heavy snow across the parts of the...
