Volatile spring weather will kick into high gear this week as a potential severe thunderstorm outbreak and life-threatening flooding loom large for tens of millions of people in the central and eastern United States.

Yet again, another round of severe weather is set to threaten the central U.S. with damaging winds, large hail and tornadoes starting late Tuesday and continuing through Thursday.

Storms will begin to initiate along a cold front in central Illinois Wednesday afternoon and eventually push into Indiana.

Thunderstorms, large hail, destructive wind gusts and strong tornadoes threaten up to 73 million people across the Mississippi, Ohio and Tennessee Valleys on Sunday. By evening, Michigan, Missouri and Mississipi each had preliminary tornado reports as a storm system slowly marched east,

Forecasters are warning of potentially deadly flash flooding and strong tornadoes in coming days from a new round of storms.

The next round of severe weather begins Tuesday night in the Plains and potentially peaks with an outbreak Wednesday in the Midwest and South that could pack significant tornadoes, widespread damaging winds and large hail.

April is kicking off with another widespread bout of severe storms from the Plains to the Midwest and South that could pack strong tornadoes as well as destructive straight-line winds and damaging hail.

As Michigan residents clean up from the Sunday storms, another low pressure system is expected to move through on Wednesday, bringing storms and another chance of severe weather. It all begins early on Wednesday as a small chance of mixed precip will move through the area bringing a small chance of minor accumulating snow to areas north of I-69.

"March is a month that can have a wide range of weather in Michigan, it just depends on the year," National Weather Service meteorologist Megan Varcie in White Lake Township said.

Severe storms hit the Southeast on Monday, while thunderstorms and damaging winds stretched up to New York’s tristate area. More are forecast for later this week.

Chicagoans can expect to see more severe weather on Wednesday, with the weather for Monday into Tuesday night remaining calm.

The mid-Atlantic and the Southeast braced for storms as the front moves east.

Volatile spring weather will kick into high gear this week as a potential severe thunderstorm outbreak and life-threatening flooding loom large for tens of millions of people in the central and eastern United States.

A dangerous, wide-reaching storm is threatening tens of millions of people along nearly the entire Eastern Seaboard Monday after touching off several tornadoes, dropping baseball-sized hail and killing at least seven people in the central US this weekend.

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