Latest Windstorm Headlines
All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Storm Adds Uncertainty to Strong Holiday Travel Demand
Dec 22 2022 // Concerns about illness or inflation aren’t stopping Americans from hitting the roads and airports this holiday season. But a massive winter storm might. Forecasters predict an onslaught of heavy snow, ice, flooding...
Winter Storm Rattling Busy US Travel Season With Cold and Snow
Dec 20 2022 // A massive winter storm is winding across the central US, threatening to disrupt air traffic during the busy holiday season, rake Chicago with a blizzard and send an arctic blast as far south as Texas and the Gulf of...
Families Shattered by Tornadoes in Gulf
Dec 20 2022 // A storm system that spawned dozens of reported tornadoes from Texas to the Florida Panhandle was all but done with the South last Thursday after killing at least three people and uprooting families across Louisiana, where...
Major Texas Storm Surge Project Included in Defense Bill
Dec 16 2022 // Fourteen years after Hurricane Ike ripped through thousands of homes and businesses near Galveston, Texas — but mostly spared the region’s oil refineries and chemical plants — Congress has authorized the most...
Tornadoes, Storms Leave Trail of Destruction From New Orleans to Great Plains
Dec 16 2022 // A vast and volatile storm system ripping across the U.S. killed at least three people in Louisiana, spinning up tornadoes that battered the state from north to south, including the New Orleans area where memories of...
South Central Storms Linked to 2 Deaths in Louisiana
Dec 15 2022 // DALLAS (AP) – A destructive storm ripping across the U.S. spawned tornadoes that killed a young boy and his mother in Louisiana and threatened the South with more severe weather Wednesday. Meanwhile, the huge storm...
Massive Storm Brings Tornadoes to South Central, Blizzard Threat to Plains
Dec 14 2022 // SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – A massive storm blowing across the country spawned tornadoes in parts of Oklahoma and Texas, including the Dallas-Fort Worth area, as much of the central United States from the Rocky Mountains to...
House Advances Texas Storm Surge Project in Water Bill
Dec 12 2022 // HOUSTON (AP) _ Fourteen years after Hurricane Ike ripped through thousands of homes and businesses near Galveston, Texas _ but mostly spared the region’s oil refineries and chemical plants _ the U.S. House of...
One Year Later: Kentucky Agency, Community Recovering from Powerful Tornado
Dec 9 2022 // A year ago Saturday, one of the most powerful tornadoes to hit the United States ripped through western Kentucky with 190-mph winds, destroying multiple homes, businesses, a candle factory, churches, a county courthouse...
Tornadoes Kill 2 in Alabama, Damage Homes and Businesses in Mississippi
Nov 30 2022 // Tornadoes and high winds destroyed a fire station, damaged homes and ripped the roof off an apartment complex in Alabama, as the storm front moved into eastern states Wednesday morning. Local news reports and the...
Safer Snow Storms: NC DOT Adds Simulator Training for Snow Plow Operators
Nov 22 2022 // The North Carolina Department of Transportation’s winter weather prep is going digital this year with a snow plow simulator designed to give employees more training time without getting behind the wheel of an actual...
Tropical Storm Nicole Weakened Over Florida But Emergency Orders Remained in Effect
Nov 10 2022 // Tropical Storm Nicole was over west central Florida to the northeast of Tampa at 10 a.m., having weakened from being a Category 1 hurricane when it made landfall earlier in the morning on the coast. Nicole’s maximum...
Deadly Tornadoes Hit Texas and Oklahoma, Flatten Buildings
Nov 7 2022 // Residents in southeastern Oklahoma and northeastern Texas began assessing weather damage Saturday, working to recover and thankful to have survived after a storm stretching from Dallas to northwest Arkansas spawned...
Lisa Weakens to Tropical Storm After Leaving Belize’s Largest City in Darkness
Nov 3 2022 // Lisa weakened into a tropical storm as it moved across Belize Wednesday, leaving much of the country’s largest city in the dark, although there were no reports of deaths or major damage so far in the Caribbean nation...
Hong Kong Scraps Market Trading as Storm Nalgae Draws Near
Nov 2 2022 // Hong Kong closed its $4 trillion stock market early as severe tropical storm Nalgae moved closer on a day when the city hosted a top-level summit for global bankers. Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd. scrapped...
Cleanup After Five Tornadoes Touched Down in South Alabama, Mississippi
Nov 1 2022 // Residents and businesses are cleaning up after at least five tornadoes touched down in a severe weather outbreak along the Mississippi and Alabama Gulf Coast. No injuries or deaths were reported after the Saturday...
Tropical Storm Lisa on Track to Strike Belize as 12th Atlantic Storm of 2022
Nov 1 2022 // Tropical Storm Lisa has spun up in the Caribbean Sea south of Jamaica, on track to strike Belize late Wednesday as the 12th storm of this year’s Atlantic hurricane season. Lisa’s top winds have reached 40 miles...
Insured Losses for Australia’s October 2021 Storms Estimated at A$972M: PERILS
Oct 31 2022 // Insured losses for the severe storms, which hit Southern Australia on Oct. 28-30, 2021, are estimated at A$972 million (US$623.1 million), according to PERILS, the independent Zurich-based organization that provides...
Philippines’ Death Toll From Storm Nalgae Rises to 98
Oct 31 2022 // The Philippines said 98 people died from flooding and landslides triggered by storm Nalgae, which hit the country over the weekend. The death toll has risen from 48 reported Sunday, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and...
Post-Sandy Repairs Help Some But Maybe Not Enough for Next Big Storm
Oct 31 2022 // After Superstorm Sandy struck the northeast U.S. in 2012, an unprecedented effort began to fortify the densely populated coastline against the next big storm. Thousands of homes were raised on pilings. Concrete and steel...
