Severe storms were expected to rip across parts of the northern U.S. on Monday, bringing numerous hazards to multiple states.

Damaging and potentially destructive thunderstorms are set to roar through the northern Plains and Midwest overnight, fueled by intense July heat and humidity.

A fierce and long-lasting line of severe thunderstorms called a derecho is likely to tear across the Northern Plains to kick off the week, causing damage to trees, structures and knocking out power. Storms tracking with the clockwise flow on the northern rim of a heat dome that's bringing another bout of sweltering temperatures to the central U.

The northern Plains, including the Dakotas and Minnesota, are in the bull's-eye of a renewed severe weather threat Monday that is expected to bring violent, damaging wind gusts.