{"id":90088,"date":"2017-07-11T07:37:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T12:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=90088"},"modified":"2017-07-11T07:37:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T12:37:43","slug":"tornadoes-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/07\/11\/tornadoes-flooding\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornadoes &#038; flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-90092\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Rotating-wall-cloud-photo-7-10-17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"383\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Storms on Monday spawned one tornado the area and caused flooding in low-lying areas of Van Wert County, according to Emergency Management Director Rick McCoy. McCoy noted that storms hit the area earlier than expected at approximately 9 p.m. Monday. The EMA director said he spotted, and took a photo of, a rotating wall cloud (above) that came down south of U.S. 33 in Mercer County. \u00a0 storms, which dropped 2.5 to 3 inches on the county as a whole &#8212; but approximately 5 inches in the southern portion &#8212; also caused flooding on a number of roads and in the village of Wren, as the photo below taken by Beth Marchek shows.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-90093\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Flooding-in-Wren-7-10-17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Storms on Monday spawned one tornado the area and caused flooding in low-lying areas of Van Wert County, according to Emergency Management Director Rick McCoy. McCoy noted that storms hit the area earlier than expected at approximately 9 p.m. Monday. The EMA director said he spotted, and took a photo of, a rotating wall cloud [&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-90088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 03:29:50","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\/90088","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=90088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}