Severe thunderstorm warning for Barefoot Bay, Micco, and Sebastian, Florida.

SEBASTIAN – The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Sebastian, Barefoot Bay, and Micco until 7:00 p.m. tonight.

At 6:14 p.m., a severe thunderstorm was located west of Palm Bay and Malabar moving east at 25 mph. In addition, another storm was detected in Micco and Sebastian moving east from I-95.

There have been wind gusts of up to 60 mph detected along with quarter size hail in both of these storms.

“Hail damage to vehicles is expected, expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees,” the National Weather Service said.

For your protection, move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building.

We will update when the storm has passed.

UPDATE: The storm has passed with minimal wind damage.

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About Andy Hodges

Andy Hodges was born in Annapolis, Maryland. When he was age 9, his parents moved to Jupiter, Florida. Andy spent several years at various radio & television stations in Florida such as WLIZ, WFLX-FOX 29, WIRK, WIXI, WKSY, WRMF, and WJNO to name a few. In 1994, Andy made a career change to computer programming and worked for several technology companies (two are Fortune 500) in Atlanta, Georgia. However, Andy returned to Florida and settled in the small town of Sebastian in 2002. In 2005, he returned to the broadcasting news sector and eventually joined our news team in 2016 as editor in chief. Andy's family has lived in Sebastian for more than 45 years.