{"id":13819,"date":"2014-04-28T06:28:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T12:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/natural-disasters\/tornado-outbreak-hits-seven-states-kills-at-least-18-in-the-south\/"},"modified":"2014-04-28T07:27:21","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T13:27:21","slug":"tornado-outbreak-hits-seven-states-kills-at-least-18-in-the-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/natural-disasters\/tornado-outbreak-hits-seven-states-kills-at-least-18-in-the-south\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado outbreak hits seven states, kills at least 18 in the South"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"A screen capture from video shot by a civilian drone shows the devastation caused by a tornado in Mayflower, Arkansas. (YouTube \/ briandjin2)\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn2-b.examiner.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/mobile_rss\/hash\/2f\/72\/2f723e81365711a5d6527c2e56b25e0b.jpg?itok=EaqymvCG\" alt=\"A screen capture from video shot by a civilian drone shows the devastation caused by a tornado in Mayflower, Arkansas. (YouTube \/ briandjin2)\" width=\"320\" height=\"175\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screen capture from video shot by a civilian drone shows the devastation caused by a tornado in Mayflower, Arkansas. (YouTube \/ briandjin2)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tornado activity in the United States had been at record low levels before this weekend. Mother Nature came roaring back to life Sunday however spawning a deadly outbreak of twisters with more expected Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service\u2019s\u00a0Storm Prediction Center\u00a0accumulated reports of 31 tornadoes Sunday although the actual number will likely be less once analyzed. Seven states including Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Mississippi reported twisters.<\/p>\n<p>Hardest hit were the towns of Mayflower and Vilonia near Little Rock, Arkansas. Entire sections of the towns were reduced to their base building materials as the twisters struck late in the day Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/tornado-outbreak-hits-seven-states-kills-at-least-18-the-south\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of this story on Examiner.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tornado activity in the United States had been at record low levels before this weekend. Mother Nature came roaring back to life Sunday however spawning a deadly outbreak of twisters with more expected Monday. The National Weather Service\u2019s\u00a0Storm Prediction Center\u00a0accumulated reports of 31 tornadoes Sunday although the actual number will likely be less once analyzed. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/natural-disasters\/tornado-outbreak-hits-seven-states-kills-at-least-18-in-the-south\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tornado outbreak hits seven states, kills at least 18 in the South<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[540,8],"tags":[15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13821,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13819\/revisions\/13821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}