ORLANDO, Fla. – The Storm Prediction Center on Tuesday has designated much of Central Florida for another round of potential strong to severe storms capable of producing damaging winds and large hail.
This new update comes alongside models continuing to “up-trend” on the potential that the sea breeze does in fact build some fairly organized storms from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesday.
Monday’s threat unfolded right on schedule, with a majority of the big weather staying in the southeast corner of our viewing area.
Tuesday’s threat appears to be far more in interior Central Florida, closer to Orlando International Airport, the attractions and several highly utilized roads and freeways.
Timing on this does appear to be fairly traditional, with development of our first showers and storms occurring from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. From there, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. primarily, our strongest storms may begin to fire as they tap into daytime heating provided by the sunshine we’ve seen in the first half of the day.
Once again, our greatest risks include damaging straight-line winds within these thunderstorms, and yesterday taught us it doesn’t take much for these cells to drop some hail on you.
Our more high-resolution forecast models also suggest thanks to the collision of “air” occurring when our east and west coast sea breezes meet, there could be some very quick spin-ups of rotating storms.
Even though the threat isn’t high, if you are out and about during the latter half of the day today, be sure to watch the skies closely but safely.
The potential for a tornado warning or two is definitely there.