A cold front shifts towards the Central Texas Hill Country late Friday night, and our first round of strong and potentially severe thunderstorms takes place as early as midnight Saturday.

A deadly severe weather system continues to charge east Thursday and is expected to tear across more than a dozen states, from parts of Texas to the densely populated mid-Atlantic and Northeast,

The threat of severe weather on Saturday is increasing by the day, and now the Storm Prediction Center has some portions of Southeast Texas under an "Enhanced Risk" for it.

Drenching rain along the Texas-Mexico border has let up but rescues are still ongoing after severe storms trapped residents in their homes, forced drivers to abandon their vehicles on flooded roads and shut down an airport.

The potential for severe storms is in the forecast in North Texas and there are already flight delays and cancellations at North Texas airports.

After a week of warm, muggy weather and gusty winds, Southeast Texas residents should prepare for a risk of severe weather heading into the weekend. The KHOU 11 Weather Team has issued a Weather Impact Alert for Saturday as they track the potential for severe weather when a cold front moves through the area.

A deadly spring storm killed at least seven people and spawned tornadoes and drenching thunderstorms in a swath of the U.S. stretching from Texas to Ohio for a second day on Thursday, raising the risk of flooding.

Thunderstorms, large hail, destructive wind gusts and strong tornadoes threaten up to 73 million people across the Mississippi, Ohio and Tennessee Valleys on Sunday. By evening, Michigan, Missouri and Mississipi each had preliminary tornado reports as a storm system slowly marched east,