{"id":15776,"date":"2013-09-04T15:25:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T22:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/heavy-rain-predicted-for-thursday-friday-in-kent\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T21:20:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T04:20:30","slug":"heavy-rain-predicted-for-thursday-friday-in-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/heavy-rain-predicted-for-thursday-friday-in-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rain predicted for Thursday, Friday in Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heavy rainfall could strike Kent and the rest of Western Washington from Thursday afternoon through Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The National Weather Service <\/a>has issued a flood watch for much of Western Washington. Read the following release from the National Weather Service:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u2022 SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL IS ANTICIPATED THURSDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

FRIDAY…WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL EXPECTED FROM THE OLYMPIC<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

RANGE EASTWARD. POTENTIALLY 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN…WITH LOCAL<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

AMOUNTS UP TO 4 INCHES IN THE CASCADES…COULD FALL DURING THIS<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

PERIOD. IN ADDITION…THUNDERSTORMS ON THURSDAY COULD PRODUCE<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

RAIN RATES OF AN INCH IN ONE HOUR OR LESS.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

* THE POTENTIALLY EXCESSIVE RAINFALL COULD LEAD TO URBAN AND SMALL<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

STREAM FLOODING. A SHORT PERIOD OF INTENSE RAINFALL ON THURSDAY<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

COULD CAUSE FLASH FLOODING AND OVERWHELM STORM DRAINS…LEADING<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

TO FLOODED ROADS. MUD OR ROCK SLIDES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE IN STEEP<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN. EXPECT SIGNIFICANT RISES ON AREA RIVERS BUT<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

FLOODING IS UNLIKELY.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heavy rainfall could strike Kent and the rest of Western Washington from Thursday afternoon through Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-15776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15776"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}