{"id":524000,"date":"2026-03-14T23:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/524000\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T23:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:39:08","slug":"volunteers-gather-at-american-legion-building-in-jacksonville-to-clean-up-after-tornado-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/524000\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers gather at American Legion building in Jacksonville to clean up after tornado :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Dozens in the community came out Saturday morning to help clean debris in the aftermath of a tornado that destroyed American Legion building, a veteran organization in Jacksonville earlier this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service (NWS) said a EF-0 tornado hit Jacksonville at 2:15 p.m. on Thursday\u00a0 near New River Station. It touched down for less than one minute, but covered over 60 feet of ground, with wind speeds reaching an estimated 85 mph.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The NWS confirmed four other EF-1 tornadoes in eastern North Carolina Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville Fire officials said no one was inside the building at the time of the storm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Legion Commander Steve Shortt said they plan to rebuild the property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Dozens in the community came out Saturday morning to help clean debris in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,14310,79,96653,3511],"class_list":["post-524000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-jacksonville","tag-science","tag-tornado","tag-veterans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}