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The weekend’s significant tornado activity in the United States could affect some aggregate catastrophe bonds, according to insurance-linked securities (ILS) asset manager Plenum Investments.

This weekend’s tragic tornado impacts across southeastern US states is expected to drive an insurance and reinsurance market loss into the billions of dollars, with sources stating it could be the largest tornado-driven industry loss in a decade, perhaps more.

Severe storms rolled into Illinois in the last few hours, with tornado warnings were raised for the Chicago suburbs. At least one tornado touched down and has caused significant damage in the Woodridge suburb of the city.

Catastrophe risk modelling specialists RMS have announced the launch of a range of product updates to its Risk Intelligence platform, including a new version of its Risk Modeler tool, updated models, plus new high definition risk models covering the European severe convective storm peril across 17 countries in the region.

Severe convective weather, including thunderstorms, hail, tornadoes and damaging winds across the United States are expected to drive $2 billion of costs, with the insurance and reinsurance sector to take the majority, according to Aon.

Severe and convective weather outbreaks drove significant damages in the month of June 2019, Aon reported, with over $3 billion of economic losses expected and approaching $2 billion in insurance and reinsurance hit expected in the U.S. and Europe.

In the last week a Derecho event and series of severe storms that drove hail, strong winds and tornadoes are expected to combine into another week where the insurance and reinsurance sector faces hundreds of millions of dollars in losses.

Impacts from severe convective weather, thunderstorms, tornadoes and hail in the United States during May 2019 looks set to result in somewhere around $2 billion or more of economic costs, with most of the wind and hail loss falling to re/insurance capital.

For the second week in a row, a convective weather setup across much of the United States has driven severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, large hail, damaging winds and resulted in flooding, all of which is expected to drive more than a $1 billion of losses, the majority of which will fall to insurance and reinsurance capital, […]

Tornadoes that struck the U.S. in recent days, as well as strong and damaging winds and large hail, are expected to drive billions of dollars more in economic costs, as 2019 now moves above the long-term average in terms of the number of tornadoes counted by NOAA.