{"id":270239,"date":"2026-08-22T16:18:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/270239\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T16:18:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:18:22","slug":"pittsburgh-area-sets-tornado-record-national-weather-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/270239\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Area Sets Tornado Record: National Weather Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is the 30th tornado in our county warning area this year, and with that, we have now surpassed the total of 29 in 2024 for the most on record in a single year,&#8221; a weather service post on social media stated.<\/p>\n<p>The record-setting twister occurred near the Armstrong County community of Orchard Hills. It was classified as an EF-0, with estimated peak winds of 85 mph. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;This is the 30th tornado in our county warning area this year, and with that, we have now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-270239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270239","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=270239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}