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Live streaming updates: Severe weather makes its way through Northeast Florida, expected to be cleared out Tuesday morning

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WHAT TO KNOW NOW:

  • Tornado watch in effect for Northeast Florida, most of Southeast Georgia until 10 p.m.

Monday will be a First Alert Weather Day for the potential for strong to severe storms late this afternoon and into the evening.

Meteorologist Garrett Bedenbaugh said it will be very warm by the afternoon as a warm front lifts through our area. High temperatures will reach the mid to upper 70s in Jacksonville.

The warm front will also likely initiated a few showers and thunderstorms this afternoon between 2 and 6 p.m. The First Alert Weather team is watching those cells very closely as they may briefly become strong to severe along the warm front.

The main line of potentially strong to severe storms will arrive at Waycross to Lake City between 6 and 7 p.m. That line will move east across our viewing area and will make it to the coast between 11 p.m. and midnight. The timing for Jacksonville is between 9 and 11 p.m.

INTERACTIVE RADAR: Keep track of the rain as it moves through your neighborhood

Individual storms will be racing to the northeast while the while line shifts east. The main threats are: damaging winds, tornadoes, small hail and brief heavy rainfall. We will begin to clear on Tuesday with highs back into the upper 60s.