Lines of destructive storms, including several tornadoes, hammered parts of the South and Midwest Monday morning through Monday evening, with weather effects expected into Tuesday.

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Early Monday morning, destructive storms turned deadly in Little River County, Arkansas. An Arkansas Marine and father of three, Eddy Withem, died during what the National Weather Service has called an EF2 tornado, marking the first tornado fatality in the month of October since 2009. Later in the day Monday, an Alabama woman died when a tree fell on her home.

Tune-in to The Weather Channel TV network to watch live coverage on the severe weather outbreak and Hurricane Gonzalo. To keep you safe and informed of the latest breaking news, our regular programming will be suspended until the threat has passed.

Monday evening, the primary threat is located in the Deep South and Tennessee Valley throughout the evening and nighttime hours. The top concern is damaging straight-line winds associated with the squall line of severe thunderstorms. But rain-wrapped tornadoes are possible both within the squall line, and in any discrete supercells that form ahead of the squall line. These supercells may form 100 miles or more ahead of the main line of severe thunderstorms.

On Tuesday, the threat of severe thunderstorms slides farther east into the Southeast, Appalachians and eastern parts of the Ohio Valley, again, with damaging winds, heavy rainfall, and a few tornadoes possible.