More than 60 million people from southern Minnesota to parts of the South, including Arkansas, northern Mississippi and northern Alabama were in the path of dangerous severe weather.

Severe weather is expected to sweep across the U.S. in the coming days, with possible flash floods, tornadoes, hail, strong winds, wildfires and snow.

A tornado is defined as a "narrow, violently rotating column of air that extends from a thunderstorm to the ground," according to NOAA.

The National Weather service released its damage survey Friday evening confirming tornadoes Thursday night in Clay and Gentry counties in Missouri.

Here’s a roundup of helpful weather terms to know as severe weather is expected to make its way to the metro-east Monday.

Two tornadoes were confirmed in Missouri, with peak winds at 110 mph

The National Weather Service confirmed on Wednesday that EF-1 tornadoes touched down in Lincoln Park and Ann Arbor during the overnight storms.

Xena Carr says Clarksville weather has gotten crazier in recent years, and she and her kids would get stressed out about the storms. After a tornado damaged much of her old neighborhood in 2023, she realized just how at risk her family could be.

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