{"id":152540,"date":"2022-03-24T10:20:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T15:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=152540"},"modified":"2022-03-25T03:58:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T08:58:20","slug":"small-tornado-touches-down-near-convoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/03\/24\/small-tornado-touches-down-near-convoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Small tornado touches down near Convoy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff and submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thunderstorms moving through Van Wert County Wednesday afternoon spawned a brief tornado in the northwestern part of the county.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/March-23-2022-tornado.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-152541\"\/><figcaption>This tornado touched down in a field near Convoy Wednesday afternoon. <em>Photo courtesy of Kathy Ross Carr<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Emergency Management Director Rick McCoy, two different lines of storms affected the county with the second line producing a twister that briefly touched down in an open field southwest of the Elm Sugar Road and Convoy Heller Road intersection, approximately three and a half miles north of the village of Convoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several local residents took pictures of the funnel prior to touching down and also of the condensation funnel as it was on the ground in the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The county and surrounding area was under a severe thunderstorm watch and the National Weather Service indicated the storms posed a slight risk for an isolated tornado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McCoy said the first round of storms came through in the afternoon producing small hail and rain. It was the weaker line of storms which came through later at around 5:30 p.m. which produced the tornado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because it touched down in an open field and didn\u2019t hit anything, McCoy said it was classified as an EF-U on the Enhanced Fujita scale, (wind speed unknown) tornado.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff and submitted information Thunderstorms moving through Van Wert County Wednesday afternoon spawned a brief tornado in the northwestern part of the county. According to Emergency Management Director Rick McCoy, two different lines of storms affected the county with the second line producing a twister that briefly touched down in an open field [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 01:56:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}