Tornado touches down in Palm Bay (Orlando Sentinel)
A reported tornado has knocked down trees and damaged homes in Palm Bay, including about 14 residences in a community of manufactured homes, Palm Bay police department said.

There is a Slight Risk of severe weather for parts of southeast Georgia and the Florida peninsula. the primary severe threats will be from large hail, damaging straight line winds and tornadoes.

ACROSS FL...DEEP LAYER VERTICAL SHEAR WILL BE SUFFICIENT FOR SUPERCELLS/BOW ECHOES THROUGH THE DAY WITHIN THE FRONTAL SQUALLLINE. PRE-FRONTAL CONVECTION MAY ALSO DEVELOP LATER DURING THE MORNING AND INTO THIS AFTERNOON OVER S FL AS RICH MOISTURE SPREADS NWD FROM THE FL STRAITS AND NW CARIBBEAN. DAMAGING WINDS AND A COUPLE OF TORNADOES WILL BE THE PRIMARY SEVERE STORM THREATS TODAY ACROSS CENTRAL/S FL...LINGERING INTO EARLY TONIGHT ACROSS SE FL.
.(Storm Prediction Center)

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From the SPC:

WILL LIKELY SEE LOW TOPPED CONVECTION INCREASE UNDER MID LEVEL COLD
POCKET OFF THE SRN CA COAST THROUGH THE DAY WITH ASSOCIATED RISK OF
BRIEF WATERSPOUTS/POSSIBLE TORNADOES ALONG AND JUST OFF THE IMMEDIATE
COAST AS LOW LEVEL LAPSE RATES STEEPEN. RISK OF SMALL HAIL IS ALSO
EXPECTED AS STRONGER CORES SPREAD INLAND ACROSS SRN CA THROUGH THE
EARLY/MID EVENING.

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UPDATE FROM WILL IN THE "COMMENTS" SECTION

Photos from Will in the Gallery.

Will Wilkens was streaming live video from a wildfire near Corona, CA yesterday...

11:30 PM CDT
Will reports wind gusts up to 40 MPH. He is currently located about 1 1/2 miles from the fire. Several homes and a golf course are currently in danger of being overcome by this fire. The east side of the fire is progressing towards State Route 71.

12:15 PM CDT
Will now reports 5,100 acres burned from this fire. Several homes in the Yorba Linda area now engulfed in flames.

UPDATE
Storms too fast for "Reverse 911" system (News 14 Carolina)

A cluster of strong thunderstorms swept across central North Carolina early Saturday and spawned tornadoes, killing two people. A child was also missing.

Overnight Tornadoes Kill 2 in NC (Fox News)
Overnight Tornadoes In North Carolina, 2 Dead (WRAL-Raleigh, NC)