{"id":231834,"date":"2012-12-27T17:22:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T23:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=231834"},"modified":"2012-12-29T05:15:20","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T11:15:20","slug":"second-christmas-day-twister-confirmed-in-houston-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=231834","title":{"rendered":"Second Christmas Day Twister Confirmed in Houston County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=231835\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-231835\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/12\/twisterdamage-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"twisterdamage\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-231835\" \/><\/a>PENNINGTON \u2014  Officials have confirmed a second tornado touched down in Houston County on Christmas Day. According to KETK, the first twister landed near the the town of Pennington just before 9:30 that morning. The tornado traveled along Highway 287, downing numerous trees and damaged or destroyed several buildings. It was classified as an EF-3. The second twister occurred almost directly after it in the same area about ten minutes later. The EF-0 only made it about a third of a mile before it dissipated, according to the National Weather Service. The EF-3 was 300 yards wide and reached a 150 MPH wind speed. The EF-0 was 30 yards wide and reached a 75 MPH wind speed. No deaths were reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PENNINGTON \u2014 Officials have confirmed a second tornado touched down in Houston County on Christmas Day. According to KETK, the first twister landed near the the town of Pennington just before 9:30 that morning. The tornado traveled along Highway 287, downing numerous trees and damaged or destroyed several buildings. It was classified as an EF-3. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=231834\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Second Christmas Day Twister Confirmed in Houston County<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-04 19:43:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231834"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232035,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231834\/revisions\/232035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}