{"id":37849,"date":"2025-04-03T16:41:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T16:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/potentially-historic-flooding-threat-looms-after-almost-100-tornadoes-hit-us\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T16:41:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T16:41:19","slug":"potentially-historic-flooding-threat-looms-after-almost-100-tornadoes-hit-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/potentially-historic-flooding-threat-looms-after-almost-100-tornadoes-hit-us\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Potentially historic\u2019 flooding threat looms after almost 100 tornadoes hit US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rainfall near Memphis, Tennessee, is expected to exceed 12in over the next three days<\/p>\n<p>A prolific <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/tornadoes\">tornado<\/a> outbreak will give way to a rare and widespread flooding threat across the midwest and southern US this week, stressing the nation\u2019s short-staffed weather forecasting and disaster response efforts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.accuweather.com\/en\/severe-weather\/live-news\/high-risk-severe-weather-extreme-flooding-in-us\/1761331\">At least four people<\/a> have reportedly died so far as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/03\/storms-tornadoes-south-midwest\">nearly 100 tornadoes struck<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/03\/potentially-historic-flooding-threat-looms-almost-100-tornadoes-hit-us\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rainfall near Memphis, Tennessee, is expected to exceed 12in over the next three days A prolific tornado outbreak will give way to a rare and widespread flooding threat across the midwest and southern US this week, stressing the nation\u2019s short-staffed weather forecasting and disaster response efforts. At least four people have reportedly died so far &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Potentially historic\u2019 flooding threat looms after almost 100 tornadoes hit US\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/potentially-historic-flooding-threat-looms-after-almost-100-tornadoes-hit-us\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Potentially historic\u2019 flooding threat looms after almost 100 tornadoes hit US\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}