{"id":205995,"date":"2026-05-18T10:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=205995"},"modified":"2026-05-18T10:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:20:11","slug":"nws-issues-severe-thunderstorm-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/05\/18\/nws-issues-severe-thunderstorm-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"NWS issues Severe Thunderstorm Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Weather Service Northern Indiana has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch for Van Wert County and surrounding counties until 6 p.m. tonight (Monday). Hazards include ping pong size hail and up to 70 mile per hour winds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff The National Weather Service Northern Indiana has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch for Van Wert County and surrounding counties until 6 p.m. tonight (Monday). Hazards include ping pong size hail and up to 70 mile per hour winds.<\/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-205995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-25 17:06:54","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\/205995","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=205995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205996,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205995\/revisions\/205996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}