Severe weather, tornado outbreak target millions this weekend

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The severe weather threat, including multiple strong tornadoes, will extend well beyond the daylight hours,  adding to the danger tremendously. AccuWeather's Bernie Rayno breaks down what to expect.

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00:00We have a severe weather outbreak this weekend and unfortunately a tornado outbreak Saturday

00:07afternoon and Saturday night. It begins with the storm that came into California on Friday.

00:11That's going to round the bend across Texas and then the central Gulf Coast state Saturday

00:16afternoon. We have a lot of warm air and we have a ton of Gulf moisture that will intersect with

00:21that storm as it lifts to the northeast. There's going to be rounds of thunderstorms from Louisiana

00:27all the way up into Tennessee. There's going to be damaging winds and unfortunately I think we're

00:32going to see dozens of tornadoes on the ground and they could be destructive and long-lived

00:37tornadoes anywhere from Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and into Tennessee. In addition to the

00:44damaging wind gusts and the tornadoes, unfortunately rounds of rain and thunderstorms can cause

00:50flooding in parts of Tennessee and in Kentucky Saturday afternoon, Saturday night. Everything

00:56shifts east as we move into Sunday and now we start talking about the mid-Atlantic and into

01:01the Carolinas. While the threat for severe weather is not as great or as large as what we're going

01:08to see on Saturday, there is still going to be severe weather in the form of damaging wind gusts,

01:14some heavy rain and there will be a few if not several tornadoes on the ground.

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