This year's April storm losses were significantly lighter than the past two years when record number of tornadoes touched down in the U.S. causing billions of dollars in damage, according to Aon Benfield.
The reinsurance brokerage division of insurance broker Aon says preliminary data indicates there were 83 tornadoes touching down in April. That is a 60 percent decrease over 2012 which saw 206 tornadoes, and an 89 percent decrease from a record 758 tornadoes in 2011.
Most of the severe weather damage this April was from hail and damaging wind events in the Plains, Midwest and Southeast,
says the broker in its latest report. At least five events combined to cost a minimum of $700 million in economic losses.
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