The National Weather Service confirmed that a tornado touched down Wednesday near the town of Kismet.

Seven states from Minnesota to Louisiana are under heat advisories Thursday.

Meanwhile, four states have flash flood watches Thursday.

Hot weather continues to spread throughout the lower 48 states from Arizona to New York this morning.

ABC News senior meteorologist Rob Marciano tracks the latest weather ahead of the holiday weekend.

The Charleston Fire in Douglas County, Colorado, has forced hundreds of families to flee their homes yesterday as the fire quickly grew to 500 acres.

In Atlanta, some roads turned into rivers Tuesday night.

A now viral video showed an overhead view of sewage streaming into the water of the popular tourist location in Mexico.

A hiker captured the cloud rolling across a hill in England.

As tornado warnings were issued for the western parts of Wisconsin, a large "wall cloud" was spotted in Spring Valley.

A rainbow creates a picture-perfect scene for a plane's arrival on an Australian island.

Dangerous fire conditions in the West have contributed to the spread of a number of flare ups over the weekend.

Authorities in southwestern China’s Sichuan province say at least 12 people have died and 10 are missing following heavy rains, adding to a grow toll from summer flooding across the country

Motorists drove through floodwaters on Route 1 in Norwood, Massachusetts, as powerful storms hit the state.

The cloud is so large it is having an effect in coronavirus hot spots like Florida and Texas, making breathing more difficult.

Meanwhile, fire alerts have been issued in the West.

Three people have died and 12 are missing after overnight rainstorms in southwestern China

A large area of the western U.S. will see elevated fire threat Sunday.

The latest round of severe summer storms brought at least 100 reports of severe weather in various parts of the U.S.

The storms continued to move into the Northeast, delivering damaging winds and possible tornadoes.

Meanwhile, out West, there is a large area from California to Colorado under some type of fire weather alert over the next few days due to dry, gusty winds and low relative humidity.

New aerials show the skies in Houston, Texas, that triggered air quality alerts as it heads towards the Great Lakes this weekend amid more severe weather.

Stormy weather produced an incredible shelf cloud over southeastern Wisconsin.

Meanwhile, Saharan dust is expected to spread over much of the southern U.S.

The large, thick plume of dust has stretched from Africa to the Gulf Coast, the most expansive since the 1970s.

Footage shows vehicles swept away by floodwaters as storms batter southwest China.

A visitor captures the eerie silence and devastation from a landslide caused by an earthquake which struck a California campground.

Skies across the East Coast and the South will be hazy this weekend as a dust plume from the Sahara desert enters the atmosphere.

The dust happens 5,000 to 20,000 feet in the atmosphere. It will continue filtering into the U.S. through the weekend.

New weather warnings are in effect along the Gulf Coast as well as a severe thunderstorm and tornado watch in the South.

A Siberian village in the Sakha Republic in Russia reached record high temperatures amid a heatwave that is contributing to severe forest fires.

A 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck near Cartago, California, about 180 miles from Los Angeles.

The waterspout was seen moving across Lake Buyukcekmece as torrential rain hit the city.

Very hot weather will continue from Arizona to northern California.

About 200 homes were evacuated in the Phoenix metro area due to a new wildfire that ignited yesterday.

Severe storms brought flash flooding near Washington, D.C.

Damaging storms moved through a large part of the country yesterday from New Mexico to New York.

The dust cloud arrives having blown thousands of miles from the Sahara Desert. ABC News' Will Ganss reports on what to expect.

Winds have been gusting up to 70 mph.

The Bighorn fire was 40% contained Friday, but is now only 21% contained.

There were 332 damaging storm reports from Colorado to Virginia over the weekend bring damage and one death due to these storms.

Residents of Lubbock, Texas, were treated to a show in the sky as fork lightning struck behind a beautiful rainbow.

Severe weather is expected today from Oklahoma into Texas and Arkansas.

The severe storms could potentially bring flash floods and tornadoes.

The Bighorn Fire near Tucson is now 21% contained, down from 40% on Friday.

The Bush Fire is 114,941 acres and is only 5% contained.

Evacuations are still in place as the Bush Fire rages in Arizona, where it has doubled in size.

A waterspout was spotted swirling in the Florida Keys, with the National Weather Service estimating wind speeds of "at least 40 mph."

There are nearly three dozen wildfires burning in the United States this morning and most of them are in Arizona where the many evacuations are being ordered.

More than two dozen wildfires are burning in the West from Montana to western Texas.