{"id":204286,"date":"2026-03-29T20:45:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T01:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=204286"},"modified":"2026-03-29T20:45:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T01:45:46","slug":"hardin-county-tornado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/03\/29\/hardin-county-tornado\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardin County tornado&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Kenton-tornado-3-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-204287\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>While no tornadoes touched down in Van Wert County or surrounding counties during last Thursday night\u2019s storms, Hardin County wasn\u2019t as fortunate. An EF-1 tornado with winds up to 90 miles per hour touched down at the Hardin County Fairgrounds in Kenton. It was on the ground for just a minute but did substantial damage to multiple buildings, along with poles and trees. Fortunately, no one was injured. <em>Photo provided<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Kenton-tornado-II-3-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-204288\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While no tornadoes touched down in Van Wert County or surrounding counties during last Thursday night\u2019s storms, Hardin County wasn\u2019t as fortunate. An EF-1 tornado with winds up to 90 miles per hour touched down at the Hardin County Fairgrounds in Kenton. It was on the ground for just a minute but did substantial damage [&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-204286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-27 00:18:48","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\/204286","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=204286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204289,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204286\/revisions\/204289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}