A multiday stretch of severe weather, with the potential for significant tornadoes, continues Friday across the southern Plains and the mid-South. Damaging winds will accompany several sprawling storm complexes that could reach all the way east to the Tennessee Valley and the Appalachians,

It's been another especially active severe weather season across the Lone Star State, driven by persistent upper-level low pressure systems and abundant atmospheric moisture riding north from the Gulf of Mexico.

The NWS in Lubbock has placed parts of West Texas and New Mexico under a tornado watch into late Thursday evening. Here's what to know to stay safe.