More than 400,000 homes and businesses in five states were without power Monday in the latest bout of severe weather that has left at least 2 dead.

A life-threatening outbreak of long-lived and strong tornadoes is expected today in parts of the central and eastern US from a powerful, wide-reaching spring storm.

A dangerous and potentially historic flood event is bearing down on 22 million Americans from Arkansas to Ohio this week.

HOUSTON, Mo. (KY3) - The Texas County Emergency Management reports storm damage on Wednesday. The storms hit around 2 p.m. Firefighters captured images of damage at the Houston Memorial Airport. High winds knocked off doors to one airplane hangar. The high winds also knocked down several trees in the area.

Communities in Middle and West Tennessee are hunkering down as severe weather and inches of rain are expected through the weekend.

“The tornado was taking her, and I grabbed the dress, and she fell, and I just landed on top of both of them. We just — I just stayed on top of them. And I was just, we just, I was just screaming, ‘hold yourself to the ground, hold yourself to the ground’… it seemed like an hour, and it was really just the 45 seconds, I think,” Sharrion said.

The average hit a peak of 172.7 tornadoes per year ... Texas and more toward the southeastern U.S. Unsurprisingly, tornadoes in Texas are most common during the spring severe weather season.

Fort Worth metro, are under risk of severe storms with hail and a possible tornado as a cold front sweeps the state.