{"id":261894,"date":"2026-05-07T11:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/261894\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T11:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:46:10","slug":"tornado-watch-tallahassee-could-see-severe-storms-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/261894\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado watch: Tallahassee could see severe storms, rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A parched Tallahassee could see severe weather and <a data-ylk=\"slk:another round of beneficial rainfall;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/story\/news\/2026\/05\/02\/rain-in-tallahassee-florida-enough-to-break-a-daily-record-maglab\/89912343007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">another round of beneficial rainfall<\/a> as a cold front creeps across the area.<\/p>\n<p>Portions of the Big Bend, including Leon County, the Panhandle, South Georgia and southeast Alabama are under a tornado watch through 10 a.m. Thursday, May 7. The National Weather Service in Tallahassee said a couple of tornadoes are possible with the storm system.<\/p>\n<p>Molly Merrifield, senior meteorologist at the Weather Service, said the storms, which were moving to the east just north of Tallahassee, will make their way eventually to the capital city.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"The Storm Prediction Center is calling for a slight (2 out of 5) of severe storms for Thursday, May 7, 2026\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_usatoday_us_articles_590\/db3961a74c087d24b873f774bf304d09.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Storm Prediction Center is calling for a slight (2 out of 5) of severe storms for Thursday, May 7, 2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are expecting the storms to very slowly work their way southward through the day,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The Tallahassee area will probably see activity moreso later this afternoon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She said strong damaging winds between 60 and 70 mph are the biggest threat, with tornadoes, small hail and locally heavy downpours also on the table.<\/p>\n<p>Merrifield added that the front is expected to stall around the Interstate 10 corridor later today into tonight.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Parts of Florida's Big Bend and Panhandle, South Georgia and southeast Alabama are under a tornado watch until 10 a.m. eastern time May 7, 2026.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_usatoday_us_articles_590\/2bc9f24120e48f776d2a35379ad601d9.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Parts of Florida&#8217;s Big Bend and Panhandle, South Georgia and southeast Alabama are under a tornado watch until 10 a.m. eastern time May 7, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And while today has the best severe threat, we do expect some ran and maybe a few storms kind of off and on through the weekend as that front just kind of hangs out over that area,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>And while Tallahassee remains in an exceptional and historic drought, Merrifield said the area could see 1 to 2 inches of rain through the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Jeff Burlew at jburlew@tallahassee.com or 850-599-2180.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Tallahassee Democrat: <a data-ylk=\"slk:Tornado watch: Tallahassee could see severe storms, rain;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/story\/news\/local\/2026\/05\/07\/tornado-watch-tallahassee-could-see-severe-storms-rain\/89973836007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Tornado watch: Tallahassee could see severe storms, rain<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A parched Tallahassee could see severe weather and another round of beneficial rainfall as a cold front creeps&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1289,113070,2072,10173,113071,232,234,233,64639],"class_list":["post-261894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-leon-county","tag-molly-merrifield","tag-national-weather-service","tag-severe-weather","tag-southeast-alabama","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-tornado-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261894","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=261894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}