The storms have downed trees and powerlines across the area, with Paulding County being one of the hardest hit areas.

A severe weather outbreak is expected to hit the state of Georgia and Metro Atlanta Saturday night into Sunday morning.

At 4:20 p.m. on Sunday, the National Weather Service released an updated tornado watch in effect until 7 p.m. for Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton, Lycoming, Perry, Snyder and Union counties.

A line of storms will move into metro Atlanta on Saturday and Sunday with hail, damaging winds and tornadoes possible. Here's what to know about the causes of tornadoes, and the alerts for watches, warnings and emergencies.

On Friday afternoon, the threat level for western Georgia, which includes the counties of Cobb, Douglas, Bartow and Coweta, was increased to level 4.

Thousands of power outages were reported Saturday as a deadly severe weather outbreak moved across the Midwest and South.