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 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.

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.

Residents are surveying damage from unusually vicious weather in multiple U.S. states where violent twisters, blinding dust storms and fast-moving wildfires decimated entire neighborhoods.

A powerful storm system that spawned deadly tornadoes across the Midwest and South, killing at least 36 people, is now heading to the East Coast. The system is expected to unleash severe storms on Sunday,