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Storms swept through western and southern Mississippi over the weekend, leaving at least six people dead and wrecking homes.

In Tylertown, trees were leveled and the roof of a home was destroyed.

Dakota Henderson, a Wayne County resident, rode out a storm in the hallway of his home.

"I could hear it, I told my wife, I said, 'Hang on baby, we fixing to get hit,'" he said. "The roar got louder and then all of a sudden that wind busted through that door and all that stuff came down the hall."

Gusty winds and "a tornado or two" are possible today in the Baltimore and Washington D.C. area, and especially west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, according to the National Weather Service field office for Baltimore and Washington D.C.

The Blue Ridge Mountains are located in the eastern U.S. and run through Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. To the west of the mountain range is West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee.

The person who was killed by severe weather in Winterboro, Alabama was identified by a coroner as Harry Leon Fain.

Fain was an 83-year-old man who lived in a mobile home in the central Alabama community. Officials did not release any additional details.

One other death was reported in Plantersville, Alabama, Gov. Kay Ivey said earlier today.

Over 243,000 utility customers are without power across the East Coast, South and Midwest as of 2:20 p.m. E.T., according to PowerOutage.US.

The majority of them, more than 65,000, are in Pennsylvania, while around 57,000 are in Ohio and 50,000 are in Missouri.

In the South, almost 46,000 utility customers don't have power in West Virginia, and 25,000 don't have power in North Carolina.

The weather service’s Storm Prediction Center issues a tornado watch in an area, up to 10 hours ahead of a storm, when conditions suggest possible tornadoes. People in that area, which usually covers several counties or states, should then be prepared for a potential warning.

A warning is issued by local forecast offices when weather radar indicates a tornado is coming or has already been seen. This typically encompasses a smaller area such as a city or county. People in the area need to take action, such as moving to a shelter on the lowest floor of a building, and by avoiding windows.

Tornado emergencies are the weather service’s highest alert and are issued when a tornado has touched down in an area and catastrophic damage has been confirmed. They are rare, but require immediate shelter in place.

Thunderstorms, damaging winds and possibly an isolated tornado were forecast for the western New York region by the National Weather Service in Buffalo.

This system is expected to move from west to east between noon and 5 p.m. ET, the weather service said.

Damage consistent with an EF2 tornado was found in the community of Fitzhugh in Woodruff County, Arkansas, according to the National Weather Service field office in Little Rock.

The tornado was estimated to have peak winds of 120 mph.

EF2 tornadoes have 111 to 135 mph winds, according to the Enhanced Fujita Scale.

"Additional surveys will continue through this afternoon and in the coming days," the weather service said.

The Texas A&M Forest Service responded to 11 new wildfires in the state yesterday, according to an update.

The fires burned 9,115.5 acres, according to the agency.

"Firefighters will continue working on several active fires today, taking advantage of better weather conditions to increase containment," the agency said.

A woman who was killed in St. Louis County, Missouri, by what police believe was a suspected electrocution that was storm-related was to be married this October, NBC affiliate KSDK reported.

The outlet identified the woman as 43-year-old Jennifer Brewington.

"Just shock, numb, don’t know what to think, don’t know what to say,” her fiancé, Ethan Foss, told KSDK. "It’s been hard all day. Didn’t sleep much."

Foss said he was at work and had just said good night to Brewington before her mother found her in the backyard of the home they all lived in together.

Officers from the St. Louis County Police Department responded to the 3000 block of Wintergreen Drive at around 12:16 a.m. yesterday morning to find a woman in the backyard of the home near electrical lines, police said.

"She was a loving, caring person, helped everybody out as much as possible," Foss said told KSDK.

"I don’t know what I’m going to do now," he said.

Videos and photos shared by the Issaquena County, Mississippi, Emergency Management Agency showed multiple destroyed homes and damaged businesses in Grace, a community in the county.

A fire station in the community sustained major damage, while three farm shops were also damaged significantly.

No injuries have been reported in the area, according to the agency.

According to preliminary reports, at least 557 storms were reported on Friday and 135 were reported yesterday.

At least 32 of Friday's storms and 34 of Saturday's storms were tornadoes, per reports.

A total of 40 million are at risk of severe weather from Florida to western New York today as the threat from storms has shifted toward the East Coast.

Cities in the risk zone include Pittsburgh and Erie in Pennsylvania; Jacksonville, Florida; Cleveland, Ohio; and Charlotte and Raleigh in North Carolina. The strongest storms will target parts of western Pennsylvania.

The severe weather threat will gradually diminish this evening as the line approaches the mid-Atlantic and Northeast. Showers will linger for some in New England early tomorrow morning as the storm system pushes offshore.

At least three tornadoes were confirmed to have hit Missouri on Friday, according to the National Weather Service field office in St. Louis.

"An EF-2 in Jefferson County from Hillsboro to Arnold," the weather service said. "An EF-2 near Villa Ridge and an EF-1 south of Union in Franklin County."

The Enhanced Fujita Scale is a system used to rate tornadoes based on wind speeds. EF2 tornadoes have 111 to 135 mph winds, while EF1 tornadoes have 86 to 110 mph winds.

"We will continue surveying other areas in Missouri and Illinois tomorrow and Monday," the weather service said.

The death toll from two days of storms that have bombarded parts of the South and the Midwest has now risen to 36.

The largest number of deaths, 12, were in Missouri, mostly in Wayne County. Eight deaths were reported in Kansas after a 50-vehicle collision during a "severe dust storm," and six deaths were reported in Mississippi following multiple reported tornadoes.

In Texas, multiple accidents caused by high winds and low visibility killed four people. Three were killed in Independence County, Arkansas, officials said.

Two people were killed in Alabama and and one person was killed in Oklahoma.

Several states were left with significant damage after deadly storms and tornadoes destroyed multiple homes and tore through buildings over the last two days.

Storms have downed trees and blown roofs off of buildings across the South and Midwest, including in Missouri, Illinois and Alabama.

Two people have been killed by the severe weather that impacted Alabama, according to Gov. Kay Ivey.

The victims died in central Alabama, one in Plantersville and another in Winterboro, Ivey said in a statement. No additional details were shared.

"We pray for those lives we lost, as well as those who were injured," Ivey said.

Ivey also said that damage resulting from the severe weather has been reported in 52 of Alabama's 67 counties.

"Our damage assessment continues," Ivey said.

Almost 200,000 utility customers were without power across the South and Midwest this morning, according to PowerOutage.us.

The majority of the outages are in Missouri, with 60,000 in the dark, followed by 40,000 in Georgia. In North Carolina, there are 36,000 utility customers without power.

Michigan has more than 35,000 utility customers without power, and Alabama about 22,000.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., shared a post on X about the storms impacting the South and Midwest for the past two days.

"Our prayers are with all those who are affected and with the families mourning their tragic losses," Johnson wrote.

The storm system moving through Florida is heading east, according to the National Weather Service.

“Be ready to take shelter if a warning is issued,” the weather service said on X.

A Tornado watch in north Florida has expanded to Dixie and Lafayette counties.