{"id":616510,"date":"2017-05-13T08:10:54","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T13:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=616510"},"modified":"2017-05-15T12:18:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T17:18:09","slug":"weather-service-confirms-4-east-texas-tornadoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=616510","title":{"rendered":"Weather Service Confirms Several East Texas Tornadoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/05\/grggco2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/05\/grggco2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-616519\" \/><\/a>EAST TEXAS &#8212; The National Weather Service said Friday that a tornado touched down Thursday evening near Gladewater, one of five twisters confirmed across East Texas. The Gladewater tornado was classified as EF-1 and touched down at about 6:15 p.m. Thursday just west of the city, the weather service said. According to the Longview News-Journal, also confirmed Friday were an EF-2 tornado near Garrison in Nacogdoches County; an EF-0 tornado near Edgewood in Van Zandt County; and an EF-1 tornado near Minden in Rusk County. Another tornado was also classified as an EF-1. The National Weather Service performed damage assessment throughout Friday in Gregg, Upshur, Wood and Smith counties. Those assessments had not been completed as of late Friday afternoon.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Little damage was reported in Gregg County, although Gregg County Emergency Management Coordinator Mark Moore said portions of the roof and the entire steeple of Shiloh Baptist Church north of White Oak were ripped off in Thursday evening&#8217;s storm.<\/p>\n<p>Moore said several residential structures in that area also were damaged, but there were no reports of injuries, and no residents were displace.<\/p>\n<p>Officials with sheriff&#8217;s offices in Upshur and Rusk counties reported no extensive storm damage in those areas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST TEXAS &#8212; The National Weather Service said Friday that a tornado touched down Thursday evening near Gladewater, one of five twisters confirmed across East Texas. The Gladewater tornado was classified as EF-1 and touched down at about 6:15 p.m. Thursday just west of the city, the weather service said. According to the Longview News-Journal, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=616510\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weather Service Confirms Several East Texas Tornadoes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":616519,"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-616510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 17:46:34","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\/616510","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=616510"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":616904,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616510\/revisions\/616904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/616519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=616510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=616510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=616510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}