Latest Windstorm Headlines
All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Tornadoes Wipe Out Parts of Mississippi Towns, Leave 25 Dead
Mar 27 2023 // A powerful tornado tore through the Mississippi Delta on Friday night, killing at least 25 people, injuring dozens and causing widespread property damage. The weather system produced hail the size of golf balls and left...
AccuWeather: California Storms Added $6-8B in Damage and Economic Loss
Mar 23 2023 // AccuWeather issued preliminarily estimates on Thursday showing the total damage and economic loss from the series of recent intense storms to hit California to be an additional $6 billion to $8 billion. The recent storms...
White House Approves Disaster Funding for New Hampshire’s December Storm
Mar 20 2023 // President Joe Biden approved a federal disaster declaration for New Hampshire following damage caused by a severe storm and flooding that happened around Christmas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said. Funding is...
La Nina Is Gone. These Were the Deadly Storms During its Run
Mar 13 2023 // La Nina seemed to treat Louisiana and the rest of the Southeast United States like a punching bag. Its three-year barrage of body blows has come to an end, but left behind a lot of scars from hurricanes and tornadoes among...
Storm Breached California River’s Levee, Hundreds Evacuated
Mar 13 2023 // Authorities ordered more than 1,500 people to evacuate early Saturday from a Northern California agricultural community famous for its strawberry crop after the Pajaro River’s levee was breached by flooding from a...
Aon Updates Europe Windstorm, Severe Convective Storm Models
Mar 13 2023 // Aon plc, a leading global professional services firm, updated its Impact Forecasting Europe Windstorm and Severe Convective Storm (SCS) catastrophe models to incorporate emissions scenarios that inform current and future...
Texas Gas Market Gets New Calls for Transparency Two Years After Winter Storm Uri
Mar 10 2023 // Texas’s notoriously opaque natural gas market is getting fresh calls for transparency and oversight, two years after the 2021 winter storm that left millions in the dark and more than 200 dead. Texas Representative...
Cyclone Freddy Sets New Record as World’s Longest-Lasting Tropical Storm
Mar 8 2023 // A tropical cyclone churning off the coast of Madagascar and expected to make landfall for a second time in Mozambique on Saturday — packing winds of as much as 190 kilometers (118 miles) per hour — appears to have...
As Catastrophic Storm Costs Rise, Could Mandatory Flood Insurance Help?
Mar 6 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. Key Takeaways: The rising cost to U.S. taxpayers of more frequent and severe flood damages The problems with the current state of flood insurance in the U.S. Actual and...
SoCal Storms, Back-to-Back Hurricanes in South Central Part of New Normal?
Mar 2 2023 // A new AM Best commentary on the latest winter storm to hit Southern California drives home the growing risk and the financial volatility that weather-related losses pose for the insurance industry. According to the...
Thousands of Michigan Residents Without Power After Back-to-Back Ice Storms
Mar 2 2023 // The power in Leah Thomas’ Beverly Hills, Michigan, home went out about 9 p.m. last Wednesday. It was back on Sunday evening but was lost again the next day. And like thousands of Michigan residents left in the dark...
Storm Across Texas and Oklahoma Likely Qualified as a Derecho
Feb 28 2023 // A long line of quick-moving thunderstorms that produced a swath of damaging wind gusts across northern Texas and Oklahoma late Sunday likely qualified the event as a derecho, although that’s not an official...
Texas High Plains Blanketed by Dust Storms
Feb 27 2023 // LUBBOCK — The Texas High Plains is a vast swath of oil-rich soil and farm and ranch land as far as the eye can see — only the peaks of Caprock Canyon break up the endless miles of plains in the region. The picturesque...
Winter Storms Ravage Multiple States
Feb 24 2023 // Dangerous winter weather ravaged the nation from California through the northern Plains on Thursday, trapping drivers on icy roads, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands and grounding multiple flights. For the first...
Parts of Northern US Shut Down Ahead of Massive Winter Storm
Feb 23 2023 // MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – States in the northern plains are largely shutting down ahead of a massive winter storm that could dump up to 2 feet of snow in some areas, accompanied by strong winds and dangerously cold...
Thunderstorms, Possible Tornadoes Ravage Central New Jersey
Feb 23 2023 // After a rare tornado warning was issued Tuesday, a strong line of thunderstorms ripped through central New Jersey with powerful winds that caused many trees to be ripped out of the ground in Pennington and West Windsor....
2 Big Cannabis Insurance Providers Say Losses from California Storms Not as Bad as Feared
Feb 20 2023 // Just how big an impact the recent historic California storms had on the state’s cannabis industry is still coming into focus, and while two of the biggest players in California’s cannabis insurance market are...
Historic Alabama City Facing Long Road to Recovery From Tornado
Feb 16 2023 // In a Selma neighborhood — a few blocks from the starting point of the 1965 voting rights marches — the path of a January tornado remains clear. Homes sit collapsed or missing walls and roofs. Some building are...
Guest at Daytona Hotel Dies After Being Struck by Forklift During Storm Repairs
Feb 16 2023 // A guest at an oceanfront hotel in Florida has died after being run over by a forklift working on storm repairs, authorities said. The 62-year-old woman, whose name wasn’t immediately released, was struck Monday while...
Lawsuits Pile Up Two Years After Winter Storm Uri
Feb 15 2023 // HOUSTON — When Cherrilyn Nedd left her uncomfortably cold Summerwood home during the February 2021 winter storm to stay with her in-laws — who had a generator — she never expected that she would return to find the...
