A large area of severe thunderstorms is forecast into Tuesday night and will overlap areas in the Ohio, Tennessee and middle Mississippi valleys that were hit by deadly and damaging storms, forecasters say.

Thousands of people from Texas to Kentucky cleaned up Monday from severe weather that killed more than two dozen people and destroyed thousands of homes and buildings in four days as another round of tornadoes struck the central U.

A deadly, tornado-spawning storm system that's pummeled large portions of the country for days was threatening the central U.S. into Monday night. The big picture: The National Weather Service confirmed at least four tornadoes in Oklahoma and Nebraska,