An early-season severe storm threat is building across the South and the Southeast through early Saturday. The biggest threat will be high winds, but a tornado cannot be ruled out.

The WeatherRadar shows a line of thunderstorms developing this afternoon and evening from eastern Texas and southern Louisiana into southern Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle.

Many of these storms will occur after dark, so it is important to have alerts enabled to be notified.

These storms are part of a broader storm system that will also bring heavy rain across the East Coast and Mid-Atlantic from Saturday into Sunday.

A cold front will sweep far into Florida by late Sunday, with the TemperatureRadar showing subfreezing temperatures Sunday morning throughout the Deep South and interior Southeast. Highs on Monday and early next week will struggle to climb out of the 60s as far south as Tampa.