{"id":11397,"date":"2022-05-20T15:44:19","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T19:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=11397"},"modified":"2022-05-20T15:44:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T19:44:19","slug":"tornado-watch-in-effect-until-7pm-friday-for-ocean-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2022\/05\/tornado-watch-in-effect-until-7pm-friday-for-ocean-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado Watch in Effect Until 7pm Friday for Ocean County"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20034\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brick.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_4237.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20034\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20034\" src=\"https:\/\/brick.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_4237-1024x649.jpg\" alt=\"Storms moving into the Jersey Shore region, May 20, 2022. (Credit: NWS)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"634\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20034\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Storms moving into the Jersey Shore region, May 20, 2022. (Credit: NWS)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A tornado watch has been issued for Ocean County until 7 p.m. Friday, the National Weather Service announced. There is also a dense fog advisory in effect until 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ose-x ose-uid-65d0541b82db3e55c2a16cd30f505ddc ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:600px; height:550px; max-height:550px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Twitter\"><div class=\"embed-x\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"600\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u26c8\ufe0f Confidence has increased in the potential for severe weather this afternoon and evening. Much of the area from I-95 to the northwest is now in a slight risk. Damaging winds remain the primary threat but hail and an isolated tornado cannot be ruled out. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/PAwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PAwx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/NJwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NJwx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/DEwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DEwx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/MDwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MDwx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kgyRDVvYef\">pic.twitter.com\/kgyRDVvYef<\/a><\/p>&mdash; NWS Mount Holly (@NWS_MountHolly) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWS_MountHolly\/status\/1527667423393918976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<p>The tornado watch was issued in connection with two lines of storms that were approaching the region from the west. The watch area as a whole includes 13 counties in New Jersey, as well as some in neighboring states. In Ocean County, a storm was expected to move through around 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ose-x ose-uid-152816804d338fb3a9044d0655fa5907 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:600px; height:550px; max-height:550px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Twitter\"><div class=\"embed-x\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"600\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A tornado watch has been issued for parts of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia until 7 PM EDT <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WbvQHydxRh\">pic.twitter.com\/WbvQHydxRh<\/a><\/p>&mdash; NWS Mount Holly (@NWS_MountHolly) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWS_MountHolly\/status\/1527674162201776130?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<p>A dense fog advisory was in effect until 10 p.m. Friday. Dense fog will reduce the visibility to 1 mile or less, the NWS said, which will make conditions difficult on the water as well as for drivers in coastal areas.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2022\/05\/tornado-watch-in-effect-until-7pm-friday-for-ocean-county\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tornado watch has been issued for Ocean County until 7 p.m. Friday, the National Weather Service announced. There is also a dense fog advisory in effect until 10 p.m. \u26c8\ufe0f Confidence has increased in the potential for severe weather this afternoon and evening. Much of the area from I-95 to the northwest is now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[2096,1959,45,362],"class_list":["post-11397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shore-environment","tag-dense-fog-advisory","tag-featured","tag-ocean-county","tag-tornado-watch"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_4237.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-2XP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}