Latest Windstorm Headlines
All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Confirmed Tornado Damaged Homes, Businesses in Mid-Michigan
Mar 18 2019 // Authorities say a tornado swept through mid-Michigan, damaging homes and knocking out power to thousands. The National Weather Service confirmed that a tornado touched down at 7:03 p.m. Thursday around the Shiawassee...
New Mexico Tornado Traveled 15-Mile-Long Path, Report Shows
Mar 18 2019 // The National Weather Service reported that a tornado that destroyed or damaged numerous homes and other structures in the southern New Mexico community of Dexter traveled a path about 15 miles long and 150-350 yards...
Alabama Tornadoes Caused Nearly $6M in Timber Losses
Mar 18 2019 // The Alabama Forestry Commission estimates timber losses caused by deadly tornadoes on March 3 at nearly $5.9 million. That’s almost $1,000 per acre of timberland damaged by two or three tornadoes in Macon, Lee and...
More Tornadoes Hit Southeast, Cause Damage in Kentucky, Alabama
Mar 18 2019 // The National Weather Service has confirmed at least six tornados hit Alabama on Thursday. The National Weather Service in Birmingham on Saturday posted ongoing damage survey reports. The number of confirmed tornados could...
Deadly Southeast Tornado Outbreak Spawned 36 Tornadoes, 23 Deaths
Mar 18 2019 // The number of tornadoes confirmed to have touched down in a deadly outbreak across the Southeast in early March was at least 36. Survey teams for the National Weather Service found evidence of the twisters in Alabama,...
Texas Storms Injure 1, Damage Buildings, Flip Small Airplanes
Mar 14 2019 // Severe thunderstorms in North Texas have left at least one person hurt, damaged buildings and flipped small planes at a suburban airport. The Storm Prediction Center says gusts of more than 75 mph (120 kph) were reported...
2 Tornadoes Struck Mississippi in Weekend Storms
Mar 13 2019 // The National Weather Service has confirmed two tornadoes touched down in northern Mississippi over the weekend. There were no deaths or serious injuries in either storm. The weather service in Memphis, Tennessee, said the...
Tropical Cyclone Idai Expected to Hit Mozambique as Strongest Storm in Decade
Mar 12 2019 // The strongest tropical cyclone in at least a decade is expected to make landfall in Mozambique at the end of the week, bringing devastating winds and floods to the central coastline. The storm, named Idai, has already...
Deadly Alabama Tornado Highlights Human Safety Risk Despite Improved Forecasting
Mar 11 2019 // Sometimes in forecasting tornadoes, you can get everything technically right, and yet it all goes horribly wrong. Three days before the killer Alabama tornado struck, government severe-storm meteorologists cautioned that...
Trump Visits Alabama to Survey Damage from Powerful Tornado
Mar 11 2019 // Standing near the slab that’s all that is left of one family’s garage, President Donald Trump on Friday surveyed the devastation wrought by a powerful tornado that ripped through a rural Alabama town, uprooting...
36 Tornadoes Confirmed in Deadly Southeast Outbreak
Mar 8 2019 // The number of tornadoes confirmed to have touched down in a deadly weekend outbreak across the Southeast has risen to at least 36. Survey teams for the National Weather Service found evidence of the twisters in Alabama,...
Improved Tornado Forecasting Doesn’t Prevent All Deaths
Mar 8 2019 // Sometimes in forecasting tornadoes, you can get everything technically right, and yet it all goes horribly wrong. Three days before the killer Alabama tornado struck, government severe-storm meteorologists cautioned that...
Alabama Tornado Recovery Efforts Begin As Threat of More Storms Looms
Mar 7 2019 // All those listed as missing have been found and searches ended with no additional bodies discovered among the shattered homes, splintered pines and broken lives devastated by a tornado in rural Alabama, leaving the death...
Despite Improved Tornado Forecasting, Deaths Continue
Mar 7 2019 // Sometimes in forecasting tornadoes, you can get everything technically right, and yet it all goes horribly wrong. Three days before the killer Alabama tornado struck, government severe-storm meteorologists cautioned that...
Storm-Lashed South Carolina Reassesses Role of Global Warming
Mar 7 2019 // When he took the job 15 years ago, Horry County Emergency Manager Randy Webster figured his biggest disasters would be wind and surge rolling over his county’s beaches, South Carolina’s top tourist...
Southeast Storm System Spawned 18 Tornadoes, ‘Monster’ EF4 in Alabama
Mar 6 2019 // Picking through the twisted debris that had been her Alabama mobile home, Carol Dean found her wedding dress and a Father’s Day note to her husband reading, “Daddy, I love you to pieces.” Her husband was...
Death Toll Climbs After Tornadoes Strike Southeast
Mar 5 2019 // This photo shows debris in Lee County, Ala., after what appeared to be a tornado struck in the area Sunday, March 3, 2019. Severe storms destroyed mobile homes, snapped trees and left a trail of destruction amid weather...
Virgin Islands Storm Repairs May Be Jeopardized by FEMA, Contractors Dispute
Mar 1 2019 // Companies rebuilding storm-damaged homes in the U.S. Virgin Islands under a federally funded program say they haven’t been paid in months and are threatening to place liens on the houses. The dispute highlights what...
Storm Waters Flood, Cut off California Town
Feb 28 2019 // A California town north of San Francisco was accessible only by boat after a rain-swollen river overflowed its banks inundated it overnight, authorities said Wednesday. “Guerneville is officially an island,”...
Kentucky Governor Declares State of Emergency After Storms
Feb 28 2019 // Heavy rainfall and extensive flooding have prompted Kentucky’s Republican governor to declare a state of emergency. Gov. Matt Bevin issued the executive order on Monday. The governor’s office says the order...
