{"id":360090,"date":"2026-08-01T16:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T16:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/360090\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T16:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T16:50:10","slug":"heavy-rain-causes-potential-flash-flooding-in-levy-citrus-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/360090\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rain causes potential flash flooding in Levy, Citrus counties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">ORLANDO, Fla. &#8211; Torrential rain from slow-moving thunderstorms dumped several inches of water across Levy and Citrus counties on Saturday morning, triggering flash flood advisories across parts of Central-West Florida.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;We need the rain, and we&#8217;ve got a lot of it on the way,&#8221; FOX 35 meteorologist Brooks Garner reported Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/wofl_aug.-1-weather-1.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A moist flow moving east off the Gulf \u2013 with high pressure to the south \u2013 created &#8220;buckets of rain&#8221; pouring in central-west Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Cedar Key, Inglis, Chiefland, Homosassa Springs and Dunnellon were among the areas being affected by inches of some much-needed rain, Garner said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Garner predicted anywhere from three to six inches of rain, which could cause some flooding issues, he said. A flash flood threat was issued for these areas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  Chance of storms in Orlando?\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">As the weather system shifts slowly eastward, the threat of flash flooding will diminish, though scattered afternoon storms remain likely across Central and East Florida.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">By Saturday afternoon, around 2 p.m., some isolated and some scattered thunderstorms will develop in Deltona, Orlando and Kissimmee and along the Atlantic Coast \u2013 Palm Coast, Daytona Beach, Titusville and Cocoa Beach.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;It&#8217;ll be slow movers, isolated, not raining out your plans all day long,&#8221; Garner said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Saturday morning temperatures Gainesville: 81\u00b0Ocala: 81\u00b0Leesburg: 83\u00b0DeLand: 85\u00b0Orlando: 81\u00b0St. Cloud: 82\u00b0Palm Coast: 82\u00b0Daytona Beach: 82\u00b0New Smyrna Beach: 84\u00b0Cocoa Beach: 82\u00b0Titusville: 82\u00b0 <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/wofl_aug.-1-weather.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  Florida dew point guide <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">High humidity continues to dominate the region, putting Central Florida squarely in the &#8220;tropical&#8221; range. Dew points across the area range from 76\u00b0 to 79\u00b0, creating sticky, muggy conditions through the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story was gathered by FOX 35&#8217;s Brooks Garner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/weather\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weather<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. &#8211; Torrential rain from slow-moving thunderstorms dumped several inches of water across Levy and Citrus counties&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[115,139,141,140,221],"class_list":["post-360090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360090","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=360090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}