The NWS Newport/Morehead City NC released a tornado watch at 7:38 p.m. on Sunday in effect until Monday at 1 a.m. The watch is for Beaufort, Craven, Duplin, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Onslow and Pitt counties.

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.

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.

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,