A significant severe weather event is rapidly developing across the central region of the United States today, with the Storm Prediction Center identifying nine states as being at extreme risk. Tornado watches are in effect from Texas to Alabama,

Multiple destructive twisters struck the central US on Friday afternoon during a tornado outbreak that capped a weeklong stretch of severe storms in the region. A lower severe weather threat remains possible Saturday as the same cold front pushes east.

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In this Forecast Feed, AccuWeather's Bernie Rayno tracks severe weather that is expected to travel across the southern U.S., bringing hail, torrential downpours, high wind gusts and even tornadoes.

More severe weather is expected in the central United States on Saturday after multiple tornadoes roared through the region earlier in the week, including a violent EF-4 twister that caused significant damage and multiple injuries in Oklahoma — the start of a dangerous multiday stretch of severe thunderstorms for the region.

Severe weather is ramping up across parts of the U.S., with storms expected to develop over the next three days from the Plains to the Midwest.