Deadly severe weather that spawned tornadoes and dust storms across the Midwest and South arrived on the East Coast on Sunday, bringing with it powerful winds and the potential for tornadoes across the Mid-Atlantic and the Southeast.

The turbulent weather, which has killed a total of at least 40 people, has caused widespread destruction.

It is part of a huge cross-country system that dropped hail — some as large as baseballs — and produced tornadoes Friday and Saturday that killed at least 24 people. The system also caused wildfires driven by hurricane-force winds, and dust storms that led to crashes that killed at least 16 people in Kansas, Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle.

On Sunday, the threat of tornadoes and thunderstorms shifted east, though at a level much lower than it was on Saturday.

A complex of storms that was over Alabama, Mississippi and parts of Tennessee on Saturday moved into northern Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and a portion of North Carolina on Sunday morning.

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At least 40 people were killed in the storms, which ripped through the Midwest, South and East Coast.CreditCredit…Lawrence Bryant/Reuters

Locations of tornado sightings or damage reported since Friday morning.

Source: National Weather Service | Notes: Reports are considered preliminary. Data is for the 72 hours starting on March 14 at 8 a.m. Eastern, during which updates are made every 10 minutes.

By Julie Walton Shaver and John Keefe

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