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.

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The rest of the central Alabama and all of south Alabama have no severe weather risk and may not get any rain at all today and tonight, according to the weather service. It will also be windy today, and wind advisories have been issued for a large part of the state (the counties in brown below):

The first round of a four-day severe weather cylce slammed into Tennessee Wednesday night into Thursday morning killing at least four people.

Many in Middle Tennessee woke up Thursday to several volleys of tornado warnings, lightning, thunder and a lot of rain as round after round of severe weather blew through the region. By Thursday night,

Rain in Middle Tennessee through Sunday will create a significant flood threat with Nashville facing 6 inches of rain or more and Clarksville 10 inches.

The first round of a four-day severe weather cylce slammed into Tennessee Wednesday night into Thursday morning killing at least three people.

This current rain event is expected to bring 'generational flooding', which only happens once a generation. But memories of 2010 flood still plague some.