The National Weather Service has issued a tornado warning for portions of Bedford, Blair and Cambria counties after radar indicated rotation in a severe thunderstorm Thursday evening.<\/p>\n
The warning is in effect until 8:30 p.m. and includes northeastern Bedford County, southern Blair County and south-central Cambria County.<\/p>\n
At 7:53 p.m., the National Weather Service said the storm was located over Ski Gap and moving east at 45 mph. The storm was capable of producing a tornado, according to forecasters.<\/p>\n
The storm was expected to be near Ski Gap, Roaring Spring and Claysburg around 8 p.m. and Martinsburg around 8:10 p.m.<\/p>\n
Other locations that could be affected include Woodbury, Spring Hill, Cassandra, Saxton and East Freedom. The warning also includes Interstate 99 between mile markers 13 and 27.<\/p>\n
The National Weather Service warned that flying debris could be dangerous to people without shelter and that mobile homes could be damaged or destroyed. Damage to roofs, windows and vehicles is also possible, along with tree damage.<\/p>\n
Anyone in the warned area should immediately move to a basement or an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building and stay away from windows.<\/p>\n
Forecasters warned that heavy rain could obscure a tornado and that tornadoes are especially difficult to see at night. Residents should not wait to see or hear a tornado before taking shelter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Weather Service has issued a tornado warning for portions of Bedford, Blair and Cambria counties after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-278560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278560","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=278560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}