The National Weather Service on Wednesday issued a flood advisory for much of Orange County amid heavy rainfall.<\/p>\n
The weather service station in Melbourne issued the advisory around 2 p.m. after thunderstorms deposited several inches of rain across Orlando and a large swath of the county. The advisory was in effect until 3:45 p.m. and covered an area stretching from Oak Ridge north to Maitland and Pine Hills east to Conway.<\/p>\n
\u201cMinor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly in the advisory area. Between 1 and 3 inches of rain have fallen,\u201d the advisory said.<\/p>\n
Flooded streets were reported in downtown Orlando near Lake Lawsona, including Thornton Avenue and Anderson Street.<\/p>\n
The England vs. Costa Rica soccer match at Inter&Co Stadium was also delayed because of the downpour. Social media posts made Wednesday afternoon appeared to show that large portions of the stadium\u2019s field were flooded.<\/p>\n
The full area affected by the advisory includes: Orlando, Winter Park, Maitland, College Park, Pine Hills, Lockhart, Oak Ridge, Conway, Belle Isle, Fairview Shores, Orlovista, Pine Castle, Edgewood, Eatonville, Holden Heights, Sky Lake and the Orlando Executive Airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Weather Service on Wednesday issued a flood advisory for much of Orange County amid heavy rainfall.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17459,7075,4773,28,114,266,4774,115,1335,139,141,140,109,221,4567],"class_list":["post-302997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-belle-isle","tag-college-park","tag-eatonville","tag-florida","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-maitland","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-social","tag-weather","tag-winter-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302997","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=302997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}