{"id":193434,"date":"2026-03-16T13:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193434\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T13:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:08:09","slug":"central-florida-facing-severe-storm-threats-including-hail-and-damaging-wind-gusts-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193434\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Florida facing severe storm threats including hail and damaging wind gusts \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Central Florida has a slight risk of strong-to-severe storms to kick off the week.<\/p>\n<p>The region is expected to be partly sunny with highs at 85 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Primary threats of the storm include damaging wind gusts at 60+ mph and quarter-sized hail, according to NWS Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a small chance of a couple of tornadoes.<\/p>\n<p>There is a sliding scale of risk used to grade storm chances: little\/none, marginal, slight, enhanced, moderate and high.<\/p>\n<p>Before 1 p.m., storm threats are little to none across all of Central Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The storm threat becomes slight for most of Central Florida from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Okechobee has a marginal chance from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m, while Melbourne\u2019s chances downgrade from slight to marginal from 7 p.m to 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>After 10 p.m., storm chances across the region are little to none.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures are expected to drop tonight, with the coldest spots located on the interior of east Central Florida, including Daytona Beach and greater Orlando, according to NWS Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>Wind chill values could fall into the upper 30s across portions of Lake and Volusia counties.<\/p>\n<p>There is a moderate risk for rip currents at all Atlantic beaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Central Florida has a slight risk of strong-to-severe storms to kick off the week. The region is expected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,114,266,115,109,221],"class_list":["post-193434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-social","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}