{"id":254122,"date":"2026-07-28T22:55:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T22:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254122\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T22:55:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T22:55:33","slug":"emergency-crews-rescue-five-from-car-stuck-in-flood-water-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254122\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency crews rescue five from car stuck in flood water | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bulletin: The National Weather Service in Mount Holly NJ has issued a<\/p>\n<p>* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for&#8230;<br \/>\nNortheastern Hunterdon County in northwestern New Jersey&#8230;<br \/>\nSouthern Morris County in northern New Jersey&#8230;<br \/>\nNorthern Somerset County in northern New Jersey&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>* Until 700 PM EDT.<\/p>\n<p>* At 616 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over White House<br \/>\nStation, or 7 miles northwest of Somerville, moving northeast at 25<br \/>\nmph.<\/p>\n<p>HAZARD&#8230;60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE&#8230;Radar indicated.<\/p>\n<p>IMPACT&#8230;Damage to roofs, siding, trees, and power lines is<br \/>\npossible.<\/p>\n<p>* Locations impacted include&#8230;<br \/>\nMorristown, Bridgewater, Madison, Mendham, Stanhope, Netcong,<br \/>\nPeapack And Gladstone, Chester, Lebanon, Far Hills, Succasunna,<br \/>\nSuccasunna-Kenvil, Millington, White House Station, Basking Ridge,<br \/>\nLong Valley, Budd Lake, Bernardsville, Raritan, and Watchung.<\/p>\n<p>This includes the following highways&#8230;<br \/>\nInterstate 78 in New Jersey between mile markers 21 and 43.<br \/>\nInterstate 80 in New Jersey between mile markers 28 and 29.<br \/>\nInterstate 287 in New Jersey between mile markers 18 and 35.<\/p>\n<p>PRECAUTIONARY\/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a<br \/>\nbuilding.<\/p>\n<p>Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to<br \/>\nflash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.<\/p>\n<p>&amp;&amp;<\/p>\n<p>HAIL THREAT&#8230;RADAR INDICATED;<br \/>\nMAX HAIL SIZE&#8230;0.75 IN;<br \/>\nWIND THREAT&#8230;RADAR INDICATED;<br \/>\nMAX WIND GUST&#8230;60 MPH<\/p>\n<p>Info: <\/p>\n<p>Type: Severe Thunderstorm Warning<\/p>\n<p>start_time_local: 2026-07-28T18:16:00-04:00<\/p>\n<p>end_time_local: 2026-07-28T19:00:00-04:00<\/p>\n<p>county_name: Hunterdon County<\/p>\n<p>state: NJ<\/p>\n<p>headline: Severe Thunderstorm Warning from TUE 6:16 PM EDT until TUE 7:00 PM EDT<\/p>\n<p>county_fips: <\/p>\n<p>category: Met<\/p>\n<p>url: <\/p>\n<p>urgency: Immediate<\/p>\n<p>severity: Severe<\/p>\n<p>certainty: Observed<\/p>\n<p>geographicname: Hunterdon County<\/p>\n<p>state_name: New Jersey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bulletin: The National Weather Service in Mount Holly NJ has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for&#8230; Northeastern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[108371,6753,813,13068,9059,6111,2822,128,130,129,812,34363,84097],"class_list":["post-254122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-car-stuck","tag-emergency","tag-firefighters","tag-first-responders","tag-flood","tag-hospital","tag-rain","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-rescue","tag-spring-street-subway","tag-water-rescue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254122","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=254122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}