The Storm Prediction Center has highlighted the upper half and northwest corners of our viewing area for the potential of isolated severe weather.

You’re sitting at home during a thunderstorm when all of a sudden you hear a loud bang and your windows rattle so hard it seems as if the house will cave in.

A severe thunderstorm watch has been issued for Orange, Seminole, Lake, Volusia, Marion, Flagler and Brevard counties until 10 p.m.

The same storm system responsible for damaging tornadoes in the southern Plains and deep South and a crippling blizzard in the northern Plains will bring the threat for strong storms.