{"id":256519,"date":"2026-05-03T11:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/256519\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T11:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:47:14","slug":"faa-lifts-ground-stop-at-tampa-international-airport-following-severe-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/256519\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA lifts ground stop at Tampa International Airport following severe weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FAA had issued the alert just before 2 p.m. Saturday, citing thunderstorms and the weather conditions at the time.<\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 UPDATE:\u00a0The ground stop has been lifted.<\/p>\n<p>A ground stop is in place for Tampa International Airport (TPA) until at least 4:30 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) <a href=\"https:\/\/nasstatus.faa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">issued the alert<\/a> just before 2 p.m., citing thunderstorms and current weather conditions. It comes as the following Tampa Bay-area counties are under a Tornado Watch until 6 p.m.:<\/p>\n<p>Hernando CountyPolk CountyHillsborough County\u00a0Pinellas CountyPasco CountyCitrus County                    <\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/article\/weather\/weather-impact\/weather-tampa-bay-rain-storms-saturday-sunday\/67-b713c09d-d6f7-4c99-8233-7177b6f5ff99\" class=\"cms__embed-related-story__link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Weather Impact Alert forecast: Rain and storms could impact Saturday plans<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampaairport.com\/delays-and-cancellations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">As of 4 p.m.,<\/a> there are 199 delays and 23 cancellations at TPA. Airport officials are urging passengers to also check with their airlines for the most up-to-date information.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FAA had issued the alert just before 2 p.m. Saturday, citing thunderstorms and the weather conditions at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-256519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256519","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=256519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}