{"id":216944,"date":"2026-06-12T00:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T00:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/216944\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T00:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T00:10:09","slug":"allentown-weather-lehigh-valley-under-severe-thunderstorm-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/216944\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown weather: Lehigh Valley under severe thunderstorm warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lehigh Valley and surrounding areas are under a severe thunderstorm warning Thursday evening as another evening of storms was expected across the region.<\/p>\n<p>Areas under the warning, issued by the National Weather Service until 9 p.m., include Lehigh, Berks, and southeastern Carbon counties.<\/p>\n<p>As of 7:30 p.m., the weather service reported a line of severe thunderstorms was approaching the area, moving east at 40 mph.<\/p>\n<p>The storms were capable of producing 60 mph wind gusts that could damage roofs, siding, trees, and power lines, according to the warning.\u00a0 In addition to large hail, frequent cloud to ground lightning was occurring with these storms, the weather service said.<\/p>\n<p>Most of eastern Pennsylvania, including the Lehigh Valley, remain under a severe thunderstorm watch until midnight.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lehigh Valley and surrounding areas are under a severe thunderstorm warning Thursday evening as another evening of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,433,182,139,434,28,432,1133],"class_list":["post-216944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216944","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=216944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}