People in Lafayette and Taylor County were told a tornado was "on the ground" and to "take cover now!" The NWS advised that residents go to their basements or move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building and avoid windows.

A line of showers and strong to severe thunderstorms continue to move eastward across North Florida Friday with the potential to spin up tornadoes, forecasters said. "Damaging to destructive winds, isolated tornadoes,