Storms swept through western and southern Mississippi over the weekend, leaving multiple people dead and wrecking homes. NBC News' Kathy Park details how one couple rode out the storms.

Violent tornadoes ripped through parts of the United States, wiping out schools and toppling semitractor-trailers in several states, part of a monster storm that has killed at least 32 people as more severe weather was expected late on Saturday.

In Mississippi, Gov. Tate Reeves announced that six people died in three counties and three more people were missing. There were 29 injuries across the state, he added in a nighttime post on the social platform X.

Meanwhile, the severe weather threat will linger through Sunday from Florida northward into the upper Ohio River Valley, forecasters warned.

Millions of Americans across the country are on alert for a severe weather outbreak as violent, long-track tornadoes with damaging winds of up to 80 mph and large hail are expected across the Midwest and South with the cross-country storm moving east.

In addition to the tornadoes, high sustained winds with gusts of up to 80 miles per hour were reported throughout the region, causing semi-trucks to be blown off of roads and increasing the danger of wildfires in areas that have recently experienced such outbreaks.

The tornado risk will continue across the Deep South on Saturday night into Sunday morning. Local authorities say at least 34 people have been killed in weather-related mayhem that has raked the central United States,

"Get to the sturdiest structure you have access to and remain in place until the storms pass," the NWS told residents in Alabama on Saturday night, when multiple tornado warnings were issued. At least 250,