Dan May has already found a location to temporarily set up his law office and his daughter’s art gallery that were destroyed by a tornado that swept through Kokomo, Ind., but he’s concerned about what other tenants will do in …
National Weather Service said a tornado that struck the central Illinois community of Washington had winds between 170 and 190 miles per hour. The meteorologists said that the storm had a preliminary rating of an EF-4. The Tazewell County storm …
Illinois has received only a third of the number of tornadoes typically recorded over the course of a year, weather officials said. The (Springfield) State Journal-Register reports there have been 20 reports of tornadoes in the state through Oct. 7. …
As many as nine tornadoes – at least one rated a powerful EF3 – touched down across northeast Nebraska and northwest Iowa as a storm cell moved over the region in the evening on Oct. 4, causing structural damage and …
Ohio’s widespread severe thunderstorms on July 10 that included flooding and three tornadoes caused between $71.5 and $84.8 million in insured losses, according to insurance industry estimates. Excessive rain during the previous two weeks combined with the high winds of …
Oklahoma and the city of Moore will receive nearly $37 million in federal aid to help recover from the tornadoes and storms that killed dozens of people and caused damage estimated at more than $1 billion this spring, U.S. Housing …
New research from the University of Arkansas finds that tornadoes cause greater damage when traveling uphill – and that the twisters tend to climb toward higher elevations rather than going downhill. Engineering researchers studied images of the 2011 deadly tornadoes …
Officials in the Fox Valley say damage from recent tornadoes exceeds $30 million. The National Weather Service tells WLUK-TV that six tornadoes have been confirmed during the storms. It had previously confirmed five tornadoes as part of the weather system …
The Oklahoma Market Assistance Program (OK-MAP) is designed to find protection for hard-to-insure homes, Insurance Commissioner John D. Doak says, and the recent tornado outbreak in that state has left many Oklahomans in need of insurance after a major loss. …
Insurance payments from the May tornado outbreak across central Oklahoma have now topped $1 billion, state insurance regulators report. “These numbers are staggering,” said Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John D. Doak. “We’ve topped $1 billion in payments and the rebuilding is …
