{"id":264695,"date":"2026-05-09T10:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T10:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/264695\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T10:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T10:52:08","slug":"lightning-flashes-off-florida-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/264695\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning Flashes Off Florida Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lightning flashed off the coast of northern Florida on Friday, May 8, as the National Weather Service (NWS) issued a severe thunderstorm warning for the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This footage was captured by Greg Diesel Walck and shows the sea off Ormond Beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The NWS issued a <a data-ylk=\"slk:severe thunderstorm warning;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSJacksonville\/status\/2052869462072697332\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">severe thunderstorm warning<\/a> for the area, forecasting winds up to 60 mph and hail. Credit: Greg Diesel Walck via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lightning flashed off the coast of northern Florida on Friday, May 8, as the National Weather Service (NWS)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,114077,9662,2072,25086,3688,67905],"class_list":["post-264695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-greg-diesel-walck","tag-lightning","tag-national-weather-service","tag-northern-florida","tag-ormond-beach","tag-severe-thunderstorm-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264695","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=264695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}