Alabama was bracing for Round 2 of severe weather on Saturday. Round 1 started early this morning and prompted two tornado warnings and multiple severe thunderstorm warnings but no damage has been reported so far.

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

At least 18 people are dead after severe weather hit parts of Missouri, Texas and Arkansas overnight, officials said. Eleven storm-related fatalities were reported in the Missouri counties of Ozark, Butler,

The National Weather Service has issued a tornado warning for Lauderdale, Colbert, Franklin, and Lawrence counties.

A destructive wave of storms swept into Alabama on Saturday, bringing with them a rarely-seen threat level for possible long-track tornadoes, winds of up to 70 m.p.h., golf ball-sized hail and torrential rain.

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.