The NWS Wakefield VA released a tornado warning at 3:02 a.m. on Monday in effect until 3:30 a.m. The warning is for Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank and Perquimans counties.

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.

A tornado touched down in eastern North Carolina on Sunday evening as a line of strong storms pushed through the southeast. An EF-1 twister touched down around 7:30 p.m. along Herrings Chapel Road in the Long Creek part of Pender County,

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.

Meanwhile, dust storms spurred by high winds claimed almost a dozen lives on Friday. Eight people died in a Kansas highway pileup involving at least 50 vehicles, according to the state highway patrol. Authorities said three people also were killed in car crashes during a dust storm in Amarillo, in the Texas Panhandle.

By Rich McKay ATLANTA (Reuters) -Tornadoes killed at least 33 people across several states in the U.S. Midwest and Southeast on Saturday night, CNN reported. Missouri reported 12 fatalities spanning five counties,