Severe weather system makes its way from Texas up to the southern Great Lakes

tonight millions of families from Texas to Michigan on alert anxiously watching the skies as a dangerous CrossCountry storm system moves East outside of Champagne Illinois a nasty ban of thunderstorms packing really severe winds winds from 70 to now over 80 mph overnight the system bringing a first round of thunderstorms to the Heartland unleashing destructive hail on parts of Texas and Oklahoma shattering bring this car window Southwest of Fort Worth and outside Oklahoma City that's going to take a a direct hit into the Mustang with tennis ball size hail and in the Carolinas where multiple wildfires have burned more than 33 square miles south of Asheville in recent days possible relief in sight the system expected to bring a much needed soaking rain this has rained from a separate system already swamping parts of Louisiana west of Lafayette drivers navigating submerged streets up to 10 in of rain falling there here in Nashville we are bracing for a long night ahead what makes the system so dangerous the worst of the weather is striking overnight so officials are urging people make sure that they keep their phones charged and they have a way to receive any alerts Victor Endo ABC News Nashville