Tuesday's storms will also bring heavy rain to central and southern Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky, where widespread totals of 1-2 inches are expected, with locally higher amounts exceeding 3 inches.

As of Tuesday afternoon, parts of 10 states were under tornado watches -- Illinois, Indiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Alabama and Georgia.

Flood alerts remain in effect in Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana and Arkansas in the wake days of deadly storms that devastated the central U.S. with catastrophic rainfall and destructive tornadoes ...