Severe storms ripped through Middle Tennessee and southern Kentucky late Monday and into Tuesday morning, knocking out power to thousands of customers across the region. Nashville Electric Service said nearly 15,000 customers lost electricity at one point, while Dickson Electric System reported more than 5,600 customers without power during the overnight hours.
By 3:30 a.m. Tuesday, Nashville Electric Service had cut its outage total to just over 13,500 customers, and Dickson Electric System’s number had fallen to around 4,300. Most of the reported outages in the Metro Nashville area were in Bellevue and Antioch, while Middle Tennessee Electric said more than 1,300 customers were out, mostly in the Fairview area. Cumberland Electric Membership Corporation reported more than 2,800 outages, with Greenbrier hit hardest, and several hundred residents in Clarksville were also without power. Lawrenceburg Utility Systems said a little more than 1,700 residents lost electricity, mostly just north of Lawrenceburg, and CDE Lightband had more than 600 customers on its outage map as of 3 a.m.
The outages were part of a broader storm system that put nearly every county in the region under a Severe Thunderstorm Warning or Tornado Warning at some point. Rotation was reported near the Davidson and Robertson county line, then tracked from Springfield and Ridgetop to Millersville and into Hendersonville, while evidence of a possible tornado was also reported near Summertown in Lawrence County. The overnight numbers show how widely the storms hit and how long the damage continued into the early morning hours. For residents across Middle Tennessee, the next concern is not the wind that passed through, but how quickly power can be restored after a night when the outages spread from one county to the next.
