A multiday outbreak of severe weather — including the potential for strong tornadoes — will begin Friday as a strong storm system barrels across the Lower 48. Parts of the Deep South, Mississippi and Tennessee Valleys and even the East Coast will be impacted by severe thunderstorms,

Friday is forecast to be very warm with highs well into the 70s and potentially as high as 80 with wind gusts up to 45 miles-per-hour, ABC7 Accuweather Meteorologist Tracy Butler said. Butler says the severe storms will start moving into the area around 10 p.m. and move out around 3 a.m.