{"id":248355,"date":"2026-07-21T10:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T10:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248355\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T10:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T10:30:25","slug":"severe-weather-could-hit-the-pittsburgh-area-today-with-hail-wind-and-tornado-threats-in-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248355\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe weather could hit the Pittsburgh area today with hail, wind and tornado threats in place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Severe storms could move through the Pittsburgh area today with hail, wind and tornado threats in place for the region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service said severe storms could hit between 12 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the hail, wind and tornado risks, the NWS has also issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/forecast.weather.gov\/wwamap\/wwatxtget.php?cwa=PBZ&amp;wwa=flood%20watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Flood Watch for parts of western Pennsylvania<\/a>. The watch takes effect at 1 p.m. and is expected to remain in place through the evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784629825_660_download.png#.png\" alt=\"download.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Severe storms could move through the Pittsburgh area Tuesday with hail, wind and tornado threats in place for the region.Rainfall rates as storms pass through western Pennsylvania could be between 3&#8243; to 5&#8243; per hour, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p>                KDKA Weather Center<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rainfall rates could be between 3&#8243;-5&#8243; per hour,&#8221; the NWS said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A less intense second round of storms could move through the area after 7 p.m. Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Severe storms could move through the Pittsburgh area today with hail, wind and tornado threats in place for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7554,3687,73,75,74,1522,914,913],"class_list":["post-248355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-first-alert-weather","tag-national-weather-service","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-severe-weather","tag-weather-blogs","tag-weather-forecast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248355","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=248355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}