There was a risk of widespread outages in southeastern Georgia and Northeast Florida near Jacksonville, the map showed ... warnings had been issued for states including Texas, Florida, Louisiana ...

An AccuWeather forecast map showed states in the "high" risk zone for Friday included parts of Kentucky, Illinois, and Indiana.

As Tropical Storm Debby strengthens into a Category 1 hurricane, residents across the southeastern United States brace for potentially "life-threatening" catastrophic flooding and damaging winds.