{"id":178970,"date":"2024-05-08T03:31:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T08:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=178970"},"modified":"2024-05-09T03:40:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T08:40:28","slug":"twisters-touch-down-in-paulding-mercer-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/05\/08\/twisters-touch-down-in-paulding-mercer-counties\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornadoes touch down in area counties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the most part, Van Wert County was spared severe storms that were forecast for Tuesday afternoon and evening but it was a different story in neighboring Paulding, Mercer, and Auglaize counties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A tornado watch was issued for most of the area but in Van Wert County, an evening storm system, at approximately 7 p.m., split north and south, leaving most of the county dry, a marked contrast to a forecast that called for showers and thunderstorms, along with heavy rain and possible hail at times on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Melrose-tornado-II-5-7-2024-e1715243998306.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-178976\"\/><figcaption>This funnel cloud touched down near Melrose. <em>Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>However, spotters reported a rotating wall cloud near the Van Wert\/Paulding County line. It was visible from the Convoy area and just outside the village of Scott and eventually spawned a funnel cloud that touched down just outside of Melrose. Scanner traffic indicated the unconfirmed tornado damaged a house. There were no reports of injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Weather Service issued tornado warnings for Allen County, Indiana, Paulding County and in Mercer and Auglaize counties, where a separate unconfirmed tornado touched down in the Fort Recovery area and reportedly moved on to the Celina and Coldwater areas, causing unknown damage. If confirmed to be a tornado, it would be the second one in Mercer County in less than a week. An EF-U (unclassified) landspout tornado touched down near Rockford on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Weather Service is expected to gather information to confirm the tornadoes and to give them a rating on the Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor For the most part, Van Wert County was spared severe storms that were forecast for Tuesday afternoon and evening but it was a different story in neighboring Paulding, Mercer, and Auglaize counties. A tornado watch was issued for most of the area but in Van Wert County, an evening storm system, at [&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-178970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-17 11:06:56","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\/178970","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=178970"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179043,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178970\/revisions\/179043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}