{"id":166886,"date":"2026-04-15T21:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/166886\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T21:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:08:15","slug":"severe-thunderstorm-watch-issued-for-erie-crawford-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/166886\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe Thunderstorm Watch issued for Erie, Crawford County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two counties could see another bout of severe weather on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to meteorologist Brodie Wesson, Erie and Crawford counties are under a Severe Thunderstorm Watch until 9 p.m.m on Wednesday, April 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Wesson said the areas could see damaging winds of up to 70 MPH, along with hail the size of ping pong balls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Erie and Crawford residents should be vigilant while driving, as heavy rain is also a possibility.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For the latest weather updates, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/weather\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;click here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two counties could see another bout of severe weather on Wednesday night. According to meteorologist Brodie Wesson, Erie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[75205,32848,136,138,137,75206,66396,1522],"class_list":["post-166886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-brodie-wesson","tag-crawford-counties","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-ping-pong-balls","tag-severe-thunderstorm-watch","tag-severe-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166886","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=166886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}