The same conditions that fueled those storms - an area of low pressure combined with strong southerly winds - were setting up the severe weather Tuesday into early Wednesday, said Ryan Bunker, a meteorologist with the National Weather Center in Norman, Oklahoma. The fierce storms that started Friday and continued into the weekend spawned deadly tornadoes in 11 states as the system plodded through Arkansas and into the South, Midwest and Northeast. The weather threat extends southwestward across parts of Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee and Arkansas. Severe storms could produce strong tornadoes and large hail Wednesday across eastern Illinois and lower Michigan and in the Ohio Valley, including Indiana and Ohio, according to the Storm Prediction Center. “If a storm comes through and hits them again and throws all that hard work all over the place again, it will be so deflating to those people.” “All of the people who have been impacted by the storms Friday night are doing all this work, to clean up, to gather their stuff, to pile up the debris,” Reisen said. In Keokuk County, Iowa, where 19 homes were destroyed and more were damaged Friday, emergency management official Marissa Reisen worried how those cleaning up the damage will cope if another storm hits.

Areas of southern Missouri and Arkansas were most at risk overnight. Tuesday’s storms targeted northern Illinois, eastern Iowa and southwest Wisconsin.

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