A tornado warning has been issued for Hernando County, and it expires at 4:45 p.m. A tornado watch for areas just north of the Tampa Bay region has been extended until 5 p.m. as storms are expected to move in on Sunday evening. The counties under the tornado watch include Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco and Citrus.

An updated tornado warning was released by the National Weather Service on Saturday at 11:17 p.m. in effect until 11:45 p.m. for Pike County.

Violent tornadoes ripped through parts of the U.S., wiping out schools and toppling semitractor-trailers in several states.

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.