29 dead over weekend and Monday. More to come this week.
As a storm responsible for violent thunderstorms and tornadoes in the Central states crawls along, the potential for severe weather will reach the mid-Atlantic and Southeast at midweek, threatening lives and property.
While damaging storms will not hit every location from southeastern Michigan to the central Gulf Coast, including the Carolinas and Virginia during Tuesday, severe weather will put more than 70 million people at risk this day.
In addition to the potential for tornadoes in the strongest storms, many of the storms will bring damaging wind gusts, frequent lightning strikes, hail and flooding downpours.
AccuWeather meteorologists expect severe thunderstorms and a few tornadoes to re-fire over some areas of Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia that were ravaged by tornadoes on Monday.
Meanwhile, damaging and life-threatening storms will visit some areas farther east for the first time during this multiple day severe weather outbreak.
During Wednesday, the severe weather risk will include more than 35 million people from Ohio to the Carolinas and northern Florida but will expand northeastward into Pennsylvania, northern Virginia, Maryland and Delaware.
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