The dangerous outbreak will continue to sweep through the South and East through the weekend. Saturday could be one of the worst severe weather days of the year.

The National Weather Service issued tornado watches for more than 2 million people on Saturday. An "outbreak" of tornadoes and severe thunderstorms is expected through Saturday night in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, western Georgia, southern Tennessee, the Florida Panhandle and southern Arkansas.

A multi-day severe weather outbreak is set to bring tornadoes, flash flooding and damaging winds from the Midwest to the South to the East Coast.

Local authorities said dozens have been killed and tornado risk continue on March 16 across the central United States after a massive storm system.

Twenty-six tornadoes were reported but not confirmed to have touched down late on Friday night and early on Saturday as a low-pressure system drove powerful thunderstorms across p