The tornado watch is in effect until 9 p.m. Friday, and includes 352 counties including Alachua, Bradford, Gilchrist, Marion and Union.<\/p>\n
OCALA, FL (352today.com<\/a>) \u2013 The National Weather Service in Jacksonville has issued a tornado watch via the Marion County Sheriff\u2019s Office\u2019s Alert Marion system<\/a> for areas of North Central Florida.<\/p>\n The watch is in effect from 4:24 p.m. until 9 p.m. Friday, October 9, 2026, and includes parts of Alachua, Bradford, Columbia, Gilchrist, Marion and Union counties.<\/p>\n As a reminder, a tornado watch means that conditions favor the possibility of a tornado forming, not that a tornado has been sighted\u2014that\u2019s a tornado warning.<\/p>\n This could be a developing story. We will update this article if new information emerges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The tornado watch is in effect until 9 p.m. Friday, and includes 352 counties including Alachua, Bradford, Gilchrist,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-423873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423873","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=423873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}