{"id":661447,"date":"2026-03-07T15:32:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T20:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wvmetronews.com\/?p=661447"},"modified":"2026-03-07T15:32:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T20:32:03","slug":"tornado-watch-for-northern-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wvmetronews.com\/2026\/03\/07\/tornado-watch-for-northern-counties\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado Watch for northern counties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CHARLESTON, W.Va.\u00a0<\/strong>\u2014 The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch for northern West Virginia counties.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_661448\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-661448\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-661448\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.us-east-005.backblazeb2.com\/wvmn-s3\/2026\/03\/IMG_4478-300x232.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.us-east-005.backblazeb2.com\/wvmn-s3\/2026\/03\/IMG_4478-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/s3.us-east-005.backblazeb2.com\/wvmn-s3\/2026\/03\/IMG_4478-150x116.png 150w, https:\/\/s3.us-east-005.backblazeb2.com\/wvmn-s3\/2026\/03\/IMG_4478.png 354w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-661448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NWS graphic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The watch is in effect until 8 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The counties included in the watch are:<\/p>\n<p>Brooke, Hancock, Ohio, Marshall, Wetzel, Monongalia, Marion, Harrison, Doddridge, Ritchie, Preston, Tyler, Wood, Pleasants, Taylor and Wirt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 counties under watch until 8 p.m. Saturday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":661448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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