An extensive, long-duration sequence of severe weather is set to unleash swarms of storms across parts of the central and eastern U.S. over the next week. Storms begin Wednesday over Nebraska and the Dakotas and from there will shift to the Midwest and Ohio Valley on Thursday.

Tens of millions of people from the northern Plains and Midwest to the Ohio Valley are on alert as a multiday severe weather threat kicks off on Wednesday. FOX Weather Meteorologists Jane Minar and Marissa Torres break down the latest forecast on Wednesday,

Tens of millions of people from the Upper Midwest to the Ohio Valley are on alert as a multiday severe weather threat begins Wednesday, with forecasters warning of storms capable of producing tornadoes,

There’s been an eerie lull in extreme weather across the U.S. recently, but all that is about to change as the FOX Forecast Center monitors a seven-day stretch of severe weather that kicks off on Wednesday.