A more active severe weather pattern is getting underway in the Midwest and Plains that could produce large hail, wind damage and a tornado threat into early next week.

There’s been an eerie lull in extreme weather across the U.S. recently, but it is slowly changing, as the FOX Forecast Center monitors severe storms across the Plains during what is expected to be a seven-day stretch of severe weather.

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,