The severe weather system already responsible for dozens of deaths hit the southeastern U.S. on Wednesday. NBC reports Georgia, Alabama, Florida and North Carolina were all under tornado watches on Wednesday morning.
At least two counties in North Carolina issued tornado warnings, indicating there were funnel clouds and possible tornadoes on the ground.
At time of writing there were still tornado watches in effect for portions of the Florida Panhandle, a region hit especially hard by the storm system. Pensacola has seen heavy rainfall in the last 24 hours, leading to "life-threatening" flash flood warnings. The flooding has stranded cars and rendered roads impassable, and is blamed for at least one death.
The storm system is expected to finally move off the coast on Thursday.
Satellite images of tornado's destructive path through Oklahoma and Kansas