{"id":139857,"date":"2026-03-16T18:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/139857\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T18:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:38:09","slug":"shapiro-state-emergency-officials-tracking-severe-weather-across-pennsylvania-pennsylvania-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/139857\/","title":{"rendered":"Shapiro: State emergency officials tracking severe weather across Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bulletin: THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED TORNADO WATCH 68 IN<br \/>\nEFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS<\/p>\n<p>IN DELAWARE THIS WATCH INCLUDES 3 COUNTIES<\/p>\n<p>IN CENTRAL DELAWARE<\/p>\n<p>KENT<\/p>\n<p>IN NORTHERN DELAWARE<\/p>\n<p>NEW CASTLE<\/p>\n<p>IN SOUTHERN DELAWARE<\/p>\n<p>SUSSEX<\/p>\n<p>IN MARYLAND THIS WATCH INCLUDES 4 COUNTIES<\/p>\n<p>IN NORTHEAST MARYLAND<\/p>\n<p>CAROLINE              KENT                  QUEEN ANNE&#8217;S<br \/>\nTALBOT<\/p>\n<p>IN NEW JERSEY THIS WATCH INCLUDES 16 COUNTIES<\/p>\n<p>IN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY<\/p>\n<p>MERCER                MONMOUTH<\/p>\n<p>IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY<\/p>\n<p>HUNTERDON             MIDDLESEX             MORRIS<br \/>\nSOMERSET              SUSSEX                WARREN<\/p>\n<p>IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY<\/p>\n<p>ATLANTIC              BURLINGTON            CAMDEN<br \/>\nCAPE MAY              CUMBERLAND            GLOUCESTER<br \/>\nOCEAN                 SALEM<\/p>\n<p>IN PENNSYLVANIA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 10 COUNTIES<\/p>\n<p>IN EAST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA<\/p>\n<p>BERKS                 LEHIGH                NORTHAMPTON<\/p>\n<p>IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA<\/p>\n<p>CARBON                MONROE<\/p>\n<p>IN SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA<\/p>\n<p>BUCKS                 CHESTER               DELAWARE<br \/>\nMONTGOMERY            PHILADELPHIA<\/p>\n<p>THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ALLENTOWN, ATLANTIC CITY, BETHLEHEM,<br \/>\nBLAIRSTOWN, CAMDEN, CENTREVILLE, CHERRY HILL, CHESTERTOWN,<br \/>\nDENTON, DEPTFORD, DOVER, DOYLESTOWN, EAST BRUNSWICK, EASTON,<br \/>\nEASTON, EDISON, FLEMINGTON, FREEHOLD, GEORGETOWN, GLASSBORO,<br \/>\nHAMMONTON, JIM THORPE, MEDIA, MILLVILLE, MOORESTOWN, MORRISTOWN,<br \/>\nMOUNT HOLLY, NEW BRUNSWICK, NEWTON, NORRISTOWN,<br \/>\nNORTH BRUNSWICK TOWNSHIP, OCEAN CITY, PENNSVILLE, PERTH AMBOY,<br \/>\nPHILADELPHIA, READING, SAYREVILLE, SOMERSET, STROUDSBURG,<br \/>\nTOMS RIVER, TRENTON, WEST CHESTER, AND WILMINGTON.<\/p>\n<p>Info: <\/p>\n<p>Type: Tornado Watch<\/p>\n<p>start_time_local: 2026-03-16T11:30:00-04:00<\/p>\n<p>end_time_local: 2026-03-16T19:00:00-04:00<\/p>\n<p>county_name: Lehigh County<\/p>\n<p>state: PA<\/p>\n<p>headline: Tornado Watch from MON 11:30 AM EDT until MON 7:00 PM EDT<\/p>\n<p>county_fips: <\/p>\n<p>category: Met<\/p>\n<p>url: <\/p>\n<p>urgency: Future<\/p>\n<p>severity: Extreme<\/p>\n<p>certainty: Possible<\/p>\n<p>geographicname: Lehigh County<\/p>\n<p>state_name: Pennsylvania<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bulletin: THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED TORNADO WATCH 68 IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34962,33,47272,28,30,29,294,1522,26351,6682],"class_list":["post-139857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-emergency-preparedness","tag-josh-shapiro","tag-pa-emergency-management-agency","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-public-safety","tag-severe-weather","tag-thunderstorm","tag-tornado"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}