Alabama is bracing for two rounds of severe weather on Saturday, and the first could affect parts of west Alabama early this morning. NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center has issued a tornado watch for parts of west and north Alabama.

Weather forecasters warn about a major multiple-day outbreak of severe weather that includes multiple strong tornadoes from the Mississippi Valley to the Gulf Coast, Great Lakes and Atlantic coast through the weekend.

WHAT TO EXPECT: Supercell thunderstorms will fire up across SW Mississippi late Saturday morning. They will then move into the Pine Belt around lunchtime and linger through the afternoon hours. The highest risk for tornadoes will be along the I-20 & I-59 corridors in Mississippi & western Alabama.

The dangerous outbreak will sweep through the Midwest, South and East through the weekend. Saturday could be one of the worst severe weather days of the year.

The threat of tornadoes is moving east into the Mississippi Valley and Deep South a day after a massive storm system moving across the country unleashed winds that damaged buildings, whipped up dust s

A multi-day severe weather outbreak is set to bring tornadoes, flash flooding and damaging winds from the Midwest to the South to the East Coast.