A tornado warning was issued by the National Weather Service on Saturday at 7:50 p.m. in effect until 8:30 p.m. for Calhoun, Clay, Cleburne and Talladega counties.

Jeff Smitherman, the director of an Alabama emergency management agency, joins ABC News live to discuss the high-risk alert for potential tornado outbreaks in Alabama and Mississippi.

WVTM 13 meteorologists are tracking a severe weather outbreak in Alabama Saturday with the chance of tornadoes, hail, damaging winds and tornadoes.

Jim Coker, with emergency management in Alabama's Jefferson County, urges safety and preparedness with severe weather barreling toward Alabama.

Alabama is facing two rounds of severe weather in the next two days. One will be tonight and the other will be on Saturday. The Saturday storms have the potential to be significant, and a Level 5 out of 5 risk has been added for part of the state in the latest update from NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center.

Alabama’s PDS tornado watch is the second PDS watch of the day. Parts of Mississippi and Louisiana were put under a PDS watch earlier on Saturday.

FOX 35 Storm Team Meteorologist Laurel Blanchard gives us an update on the severe weather system approaching Florida. There is the potential for severe weather across the southeastern parts of the United States over the next several days,

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