While tornado watches are in effect, damaging wind gusts and large hail remain the primary hazards from any severe thunderstorms on Sunday.

The National Weather Service issued a tornado emergency, the most severe type of warning that exists ... that stretches from Texas to Minnesota and Maine, according to the Oklahoma-based Storm ...

Bill Lee declared a state of emergency and requested an emergency declaration to secure federal assistance ahead of the storms, and several tornado warnings and severe thunderstorm warnings were ...

Meanwhile, water rescues were underway in flooded parts of Nashville, Tennessee, where the rain could persist for days after an unnerving night of tornado warnings that drained the batteries of ...

Baseball-size hail and a few tornadoes were reported Saturday as parts of Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky and Missouri were under tornado watches Sunday evening.

Tornado warnings were also issued in Missouri and ... a huge part of the nation that stretches from Texas to Minnesota and Maine, according to the Oklahoma-based Storm Prediction Center.

An outbreak of severe weather this weekend and into early next ... to New England where winter weather advisories blanketed Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and parts of New York ...

Data obtained by The Associated Press shows that close to half of the local National Weather Service forecast offices have 20% vacancy rates as severe weather chugs across the nation’s heartland ...