Tornadoes on Wednesday struck the central United States, including damaging property in Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Indiana Oklahoma, with torrential rain spurring flash flooding.

Tornados have been reported in at least eight states this week, after powerful storms swept across the country.

A life-threatening outbreak of long-lived and strong tornadoes is expected today in parts of the central and eastern US from a powerful, wide-reaching spring storm.

At least two people were killed in Tennessee, officials said, and millions were under severe weather advisories. Flooding was reported in Nashville.

Strong thunderstorms will move across the watch area and could produce tornadoes with gusts up to 75 miles per hour and rise up to 1.5 inches in diameter.

Millions of people are under tornado watches across the central United States on Sunday, as a volatile weather system has triggered power outages and huge hail. Nearly 175 million people from Illinois to eastern Texas and beyond could be affected,

Forecasters issued some of their rarest and most extreme alerts on Wednesday as they warned a powerful storm system would stall over the central part of the country.

Unprecedented tornadoes and violent storms swept across large parts of the southern and Midwest United States, causing extensive damage, including downed power lines,

The potential for a new, large area of severe weather will ramp up over the central United States this weekend, Accuweather forecasters say.

Several people are dead after a series of massive tornadoes have hit the central part of the United States. Multiple tornadoes, including some that were described as "monsters," hit the United States on Wednesday night into Thursday morning.