The NWS Raleigh NC issued an updated tornado watch at 11:20 p.m. on Sunday in effect until Monday at 1 a.m. The watch is for Cumberland, Edgecombe, Franklin, Halifax, Harnett, Hoke, Johnston, Nash, Sampson,

The National Weather Service has issued a new tornado watch from Sunday night until 1 a.m. Monday. The watch applies for Durham, Wake, Orange, and surrounding counties. The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch for Durham, Wake and surrounding counties for Sunday until 2 p.m.

At 7:40 p.m. on Sunday, the NWS Blacksburg VA issued a tornado watch in effect until Monday at 1 a.m. for Caswell and Rockingham counties.

Millions of Americans across the country are on alert for a severe weather outbreak as violent, long-track tornadoes with damaging winds of up to 80 mph and large hail are expected across the Midwest and South with the cross-country storm moving east.

Meanwhile, the severe weather threat will linger through Sunday from Florida northward into the upper Ohio River Valley, forecasters warned.

Violent tornadoes and high winds decimated homes, wiped out schools and toppled semitractor-trailers as a monster storm that killed at least 32 people ripped its way across the central and southern U.