{"id":221340,"date":"2026-04-07T01:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/221340\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T01:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:16:07","slug":"flood-watch-issued-for-parts-of-central-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/221340\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood watch issued for parts of Central Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heavy rain will focus along coast<\/p>\n

Flood watch in effect for Volusia and Brevard counties until 8 p.m. Tuesday<\/p>\n

ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 A flood watch has been issued for Volusia and Brevard counties until 8 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n

A widespread 2-4 inches of rain will fall in the watch area. Isolated amounts in excess of 5 inches will be possible.<\/p>\n

Rainfall forecast next five days<\/p>\n

While the rain is much needed, the rain will be heavy at times and will repeatedly fall over the same areas around and along the I-95 corridor.<\/p>\n

Another round of heavy rain is expected to develop overnight and cling to the coast for portions of the morning commute.<\/p>\n

Future radar<\/p>\n

The rain will become more scattered through the afternoon and evening.<\/p>\n

Rain remains in the forecast through Thursday.<\/a><\/p>\n

Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

About the AuthorJonathan Kegges headshotJonathan Kegges<\/a><\/p>\n

Jonathan Kegges joined the News 6 team in June 2019 and now covers weather on TV and all digital platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heavy rain will focus along coast Flood watch in effect for Volusia and Brevard counties until 8 p.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2927,28,30,29,508,1335,139,221],"class_list":["post-221340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-flooding","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-forecast","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221340","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=221340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}