{"id":5245,"date":"2015-06-23T11:20:25","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T15:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=5245"},"modified":"2015-06-23T11:20:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T15:20:25","slug":"severe-thunderstorm-watch-issued-for-shore-area-damaging-winds-the-primary-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/06\/severe-thunderstorm-watch-issued-for-shore-area-damaging-winds-the-primary-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe Thunderstorm Watch Issued for Shore Area; Damaging Winds the Primary Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5246\" style=\"width: 503px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-23-at-11.14.42-AM.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5246\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5246\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-23-at-11.14.42-AM.png\" alt=\"Severe Thunderstorm Threat (Credit: NWS)\" width=\"493\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-23-at-11.14.42-AM.png 493w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-23-at-11.14.42-AM-400x261.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 493px) 100vw, 493px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Severe Thunderstorm Threat (Credit: NWS)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A severe thunderstorm watch has been issued for the entire Shore area, including all of Ocean County, until 7 p.m. Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service issued the watch as its chief meteorologist in the Mount Holly office said that &#8220;damaging winds&#8221; are the primary threat forecasters are worried about in a line of storms that is expected to pass through New Jersey this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Skeldon, a meteorologist for The Press of Atlantic City, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheOfficialDanSkeldonPage?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">said via social media<\/a> that small hail would also be possible during afternoon thunderstorms, which would likely come with frequent lightning. Skeldon agreed that damaging winds would be the primary threat Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The storms are expected to move from the northwest to southeast across New Jersey during the afternoon hours Tuesday, with the highest threat of severe weather occurring around 5 p.m., according to meteorologists.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/06\/severe-thunderstorm-watch-issued-for-shore-area-damaging-winds-the-primary-threat\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A severe thunderstorm watch has been issued for the entire Shore area, including all of Ocean County, until 7 p.m. Tuesday night. The National Weather Service issued the watch as its chief meteorologist in the Mount Holly office said that &#8220;damaging winds&#8221; are the primary threat forecasters are worried about in a line of storms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[24,182,227],"class_list":["post-5245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shore-environment","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-jersey-shore","tag-severe-thunderstorm-watch"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-23-at-11.14.42-AM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-1mB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}