Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant says the Federal Emergency Management Agency has declared two more Mississippi counties as disaster areas due to storms and tornadoes that pounded the state last Sunday. Marion and Wayne counties were named disaster areas on Friday. …
The state Consumer Affairs Division is warning Tennesseans to beware of scams when seeking to repair damage from recent tornadoes, winds, ice and flooding. Consumer Affairs Director Gary Cordell said in a news release that unscrupulous people often use times …
Predawn storms that raked Indiana on Wednesday spawned two small tornadoes and destructive winds, uprooting trees, downing power lines and flattening barns and other structures. An EF1 tornado with winds of 85-95 mph damaged the roof and porch of an …
A large storm system packing high winds, rain and some possible tornadoes tore across several states in the South and central U.S. on Wednesday, blacking out power to thousands, downing trees and damaging homes. One death was reported when a …
Forecasters say 2012 is a below-average year for tornadoes in Alabama, at least so far. While Alabama has 40 tornadoes in an average year, the National Weather Service says only 32 tornadoes occurred in the state through Thanksgiving. If no …
Just a month after a notable tornado outbreak across parts of the Midwest and the Southeast, a severe thunderstorm yesterday spawned up to 12 tornadoes causing extensive localized damage in the Dallas-Fort Worth region of Texas, according to catastrophe modeling …
Home insurance rates in Missouri are rising after last year’s deadly tornadoes in the state. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the Missouri Department of Insurance reported that rates increased 5 percent from July of last year to early this …
Gov. Jay Nixon is requesting federal assistance for 18 Missouri counties hit by last week’s violent storms. Nixon said Wednesday he has requested a federal major disaster declaration for parts of southern and northern Missouri struck by tornadoes, hail and …
March came in like a very large and powerful lion, spawning severe weather across the Midwest, interior south and southeast United States. Insured losses from the tornadoes, hail and high winds that struck in late February and early March may …
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated 45 counties in Michigan as natural disaster areas for three separate sets of disaster conditions last year. Gov. Rick Snyder on Tuesday announced the designation after periods of weather that occurred starting in …