{"id":4112,"date":"2026-03-12T02:57:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/kankakee-illinois-hit-by-record-breaking-hail-storm-that-caused-fatalities\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T02:57:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:57:39","slug":"kankakee-illinois-hit-by-record-breaking-hail-storm-that-caused-fatalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/kankakee-illinois-hit-by-record-breaking-hail-storm-that-caused-fatalities\/","title":{"rendered":"Kankakee, Illinois Hit By Record-Breaking Hail Storm That Caused Fatalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<table width=\"80%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/BidUfqJis1SP.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\">\n                <\/td>\n<td width=\"80%\" valign=\"top\">A massive supercell storm hit Kankakee, Illinois on March 10th, dropping hail the size of softballs. The National Weather Service reported hail up to 6 inches in diameter, which may have broken the state&#8217;s record set in 2014. Videos show car windshields completely shattered and streets covered in ice. The same storm system also spawned a tornado that tore through town.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive supercell storm hit Kankakee, Illinois on March 10th, dropping hail the size of softballs. The National Weather Service&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14044,"featured_media":4114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[10,9],"class_list":["post-4112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-rss","tag-culture","tag-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}