{"id":193869,"date":"2026-03-16T19:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T19:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193869\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T19:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T19:14:12","slug":"tornado-watch-issued-for-alachua-county-north-central-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193869\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado watch issued for Alachua County, North Central Florida\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Weather Service in Jacksonville issued a tornado watch for Alachua, Bradford,\u00a0Marion\u00a0and\u00a0Union counties in\u00a0North Central Florida, with 10 other counties also included.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The watch will last until 8 p.m. as the right weather conditions for tornado formation continue.\u00a0In a special weather statement, the NWS said it was tracking a line of strong thunderstorms that stretched from Race Pond to Bell and\u00a0was moving\u00a0at 50 miles per hour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The storms are bringing needed rain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mainstreetdailynews.com\/news\/north-florida-districts-water-alerts-drought\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">during a severe\u00a0drought<\/a>\u00a0and could cause overnight temperatures to drop to 39 degrees.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Become A Member<\/p>\n<p>Mainstreet does not have a paywall, but pavement-pounding journalism is not free. Join your neighbors who make this vital work possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCAxMjAwIDgwMCIgd2lkdGg9IjEyMDAiIGhlaWdodD0iODAwIiBkYXRhLXU9Imh0dHBzJTNBJTJGJTJGd3d3Lm1haW5zdHJlZXRkYWlseW5ld3MuY29tJTJGd3AtY29udGVudCUyRnVwbG9hZHMlMkYyMDI2JTJGMDMlMkZDb3VydGVzeS1vZi1OV1MuanBnIiBkYXRhLXc9IjEyMDAiIGRhdGEtaD0iODAwIiBkYXRhLWJpcD0iIj48L3N2Zz4=\" data-spai=\"1\" alt=\"Tornado watch map\" class=\"wp-image-137239\"  \/>Courtesy of NWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Weather Service in Jacksonville issued a tornado watch for Alachua, Bradford,\u00a0Marion\u00a0and\u00a0Union counties in\u00a0North Central Florida, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-193869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193869","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=193869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}