However, another round of showers is likely overnight and will be accompanied by gusty winds. A wind advisory, for gusts up to 40 to 50 mph, is in effect from midnight to 6 a.m. What’s next? Showers probably pop up again tomorrow before a drier stretch starting Sunday.

The watch, which also includes the Eastern Shore, is in effect until 12 a.m. Saturday. Isolated hail “up to ping pong size” is also possible, with scattered wind gusts up to 65 mph possible.

On Friday at 6:03 p.m. the NWS Wilmington NC released a tornado warning in effect until 6:30 p.m. The warning is for Bladen, Columbus and Robeson counties. Quarter-sized hail (1 inch) is foreseen with the incoming storm.

Officials in Oklahoma say a work crew of incarcerated people cut through downed trees to clear the way for a woman and her three children to finally leave their rural property.

Actor Tray Chaney, best known for his role on the hit HBO series “The Wire,” shared a video from outside his suburban Atlanta home after it was destroyed by a tornado.

From devastation, to desperation, to people helping people, this is the story — in photos and videos by the Post-Dispatch — of the first two weeks since an EF-3 tornado

It was "one of rarest" tornado outbreaks on record, says a tornado expert, but "things like that are possible."