Tuesday features another heightened risk of severe storms in the Midwest and South, but then a much-needed break from widespread severe weather will arrive for the second half of the week.

At least 28 people have died and dozens more have been injured after tornadoes and severe storms in areas of the Midwest and East hit in recent days.

The storms struck Friday afternoon causing severe damage to parts of St. Louis before more tornados sprung up in Kentucky overnight, causing deaths and more desruction.

GOVE COUNTY —Spring storms brought hail, heavy rain, damaging winds and numerous tornadoes to portions of Kansas on Sunday. The National Weather Service issued tornado warnings in Cheyenne, Scott, Logan, Gove, Edwards, Pawnee, Kiowa, Stafford, Pratt and Reno Counties on Sunday.

A tornado warning and widespread severe weather alert have been issued for the Plains and Midwest, with isolated tornadoes expected to hit several states.

T ornadoes, heavy rain, and thunderstorms tore through parts of the Midwestern and Southern United States over the weekend, leaving dozens dead. The weather system, which began on Friday, produced more than two dozen tornadoes that ripped through parts of Kentucky, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.

A strong storm system coming out of the Great Plains brought severe thunderstorms to the Midwest on Thursday, including a reported tornado that swept through a small Wisconsin city, damaging businesses and homes, forcing road closures and downing power lines, the authorities said.

A wide swath of the Midwest and Plains states is under a tornado watch and severe weather conditions are forecast to persist into next week, the National Weather service said Thursday.

Thunderstorms that could pack high winds, large hail, flash flooding and a few tornadoes will extend from parts of Texas through Nebraska.

Residents in Kentucky and Missouri began sifting through damage in tornado-stricken neighborhoods and clearing debris on Sunday after severe storms swept through parts of the Midwest and South ...

At least 9 million people in the nation's upper Midwest region are under red flag warnings on Monday, including residents of Minnesota, where a wildfire was already burning out of control in the largest national forest east of the Mississippi River.

"Severe thunderstorms capable of all severe hazards remain possible this evening across portions of the central and southern Plains," a forecast from the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center (SPC) said. "Several strong to intense tornadoes are possible," it added.