{"id":249556,"date":"2026-07-22T17:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T17:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249556\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T17:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T17:49:14","slug":"nws-video-confirms-tornado-in-butler-county-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249556\/","title":{"rendered":"NWS: Video confirms tornado in Butler County, Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NWS: Video confirms tornado near Portersville, Butler County Tuesday<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/853c053a-375d-4f49-afda-568da22e36ea_1727472834.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Caitlyn Scott\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>MUDDY CREEK TOWNSHIP, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">The National Weather Service said that during intense storms on Tuesday, a tornado appeared to have touched down in Butler County. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">In a post on social media, officials said they obtained video showing that a tornado was briefly on the ground near Portersville.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">NWS officials said the video captured the tornado across from the 100 block of Bauder School Road.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">On Wednesday, a storm survey team from the NWS is scheduled to visit Butler and Lawrence counties to look for possible tornadic damage.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">&#8220;Areas of interest are northwest of New Castle, PA near Route 422 and continuing southeast towards Portersville, PA,&#8221; the NWS said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NWS: Video confirms tornado near Portersville, Butler County Tuesday MUDDY CREEK TOWNSHIP, Pa. \u2014 The National Weather Service&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6110,894,44806,6095,4112,106751,106752,12934,10654,10744,106750,18915,26559,28,30,29,73,3031,6682,420,1887],"class_list":["post-249556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-allegheny","tag-allegheny-county","tag-armstrong","tag-beaver","tag-butler-county","tag-butler-county-tuesday","tag-emailpart","tag-fayette","tag-greene","tag-indiana","tag-national-weather-service-pittsburgh","tag-nws","tag-p-m-tuesday","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-portersville","tag-tornado","tag-video","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249556","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=249556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}