{"id":261544,"date":"2026-08-08T09:34:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T09:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261544\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T09:34:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T09:34:25","slug":"philadelphia-weather-severe-thunderstorm-watches-warnings-issued-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261544\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia weather: Severe thunderstorm watches, warnings issued Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">PHILADELPHIA &#8211; Amid another day of <a href=\"https:\/\/fox29.com\/tag\/weather\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">intense heat<\/a> and humidity Friday, we&#8217;ll be turning our attention to the skies Friday afternoon and evening with severe storms expected to impact parts of the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A region-wide severe thunderstorm watch for the for Friday night calls for wind gusts up to 65 MPH and quarter-sized hail possible. Frequent lightning will also be possible with those storms.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A storm system moving across the western part of the state early Friday afternoon prompted severe thunderstorm warnings in some areas, including Berks, Bucks, Carbon, and Lehigh Monroe, and Northampton counties.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1ezxugc51s9vtnvv.jpg\" alt=\"Weather Authority: Severe thunderstorm watch across Philly region, New Jersey\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1ezxugc51s9vtnvv.jpg\" alt=\"Weather Authority: Severe thunderstorm watch across Philly region, New Jersey\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image\" data-v-50c11e5b=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A flash flood warning was also issued for most of those areas through 8:15 p.m. Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A heat advisory issued on Thursday by the National Weather Service continued Friday and will remain in effect through the weekend.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">After Friday&#8217;s storms, expect temperatures to fall into the 70s overnight before climbing back into the mid-90s both Saturday and Sunday, and once again on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Humidity will make this stretch of heat even more uncomfortable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/vlcsnap-2026-08-07-15h17m49s009.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Philadelphia area will officially reach its sixth heat wave of the summer on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Temperatures will stay in the 90s with humidity throughout the weekend and into the early part of next week.<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/weather\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weather<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/pa\/philadelphia\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA &#8211; Amid another day of intense heat and humidity Friday, we&#8217;ll be turning our attention to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[139,539,69,71,70,593,1133],"class_list":["post-261544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-news","tag-pa","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-us","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261544","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=261544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}