Storm activity in the eastern U.S. last week spawned a varietyof damaging weather from the Southeast to the Northeast, and likelycaused over $100 million in insured losses in Mississippialone.
|Aon Benfield reports that an active weather pattern causedbaseball-sized hail, strong winds that gusted up to 100 miles perhour and at least 482 reports of tornadoes in the Southeast, aswell as over 15 inches of snow in some parts of the Northeast.
|“The inclement weather was associated with a complex series oflow-pressure areas and frontal boundaries which were found fromnorthern New England to the Gulf Coast,” Aon Benfield says in astatement.
|In the South, Mississippi was the hardest-hit state, AonBenfield says, sustaining considerable hail and wind damage. Thestate insurance commissioner estimates that as many as 50,000residential, commercial and automobile claims will be filed.
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