{"id":374438,"date":"2026-08-18T07:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T07:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374438\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T07:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T07:30:08","slug":"national-weather-service-confirms-miami-champaign-tornadoes-during-saturdays-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374438\/","title":{"rendered":"National Weather Service confirms Miami, Champaign tornadoes during Saturday&#8217;s storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miami and Champaign counties were hit by tornadoes Saturday evening, the National Weather Service has now confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/forecast.weather.gov\/product.php?site=iln&amp;issuedby=ILN&amp;product=PNS\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">National Weather Service<\/a> said video evidence shows a tornado near St. Paris in Champaign County, while another tornado struck near Fletcher in Miami County.<\/p>\n<p>Damage assessments are continuing to determine the exact strength and path of both twisters. That information should be released soon.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service is still researching the damage in Champaign, Clark, and Madison counties from the Aug. 11 storms. Those results will also be released soon.<\/p>\n<p>An EF1 tornado was confirmed in south Columbus on Aug. 11. Straight-line winds up to 100 mph also hit elsewhere in Franklin County, including the Upper Arlington area.<\/p>\n<p>Surveyors are also looking into other reports of damage from both the Aug. 11 and 15 storms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami and Champaign counties were hit by tornadoes Saturday evening, the National Weather Service has now confirmed. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-374438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}