Tornado Warning in the Raleigh N.C. Area!!!

As of this posting there are 8 tornado warnings in my area and Raleigh has had a report of a tornado touching down in the downtown area. Blinding rain and extremely high winds. Raleigh has declared a tornado emergency. I do not know what that means, I have only lived here for 3 yrs and have never seen this many twisters on the ground at the same time.Still have power but have had intermittent outages.