North Florida is facing a rare and highly dangerous tornado threat as a monster weekend storm system marches across the Midwest and South, leaving more than a dozen dead in its wake. A tornado watch is in effect until 10 a.

Thousands of power outages were reported Saturday as a deadly severe weather outbreak moved across the Midwest and South.

Meanwhile, the severe weather threat will linger through Sunday from Florida northward into the upper Ohio River Valley, forecasters warned.

"Get to the sturdiest structure you have access to and remain in place until the storms pass," the NWS told residents in Alabama on Saturday night, when multiple tornado warnings were issued. At least 250,

Violent tornadoes and high winds decimated homes, wiped out schools and toppled semitractor-trailers as a monster storm that killed at least 32 people ripped its way across the central and southern U.