Extreme storms that tore by central Tennessee killed six individuals Saturday and despatched almost two dozen to the hospital as houses and companies have been broken in a number of cities.
Three individuals, together with a toddler, have been killed after a twister struck Montgomery County north of Nashville close to the Kentucky state line, county officers stated in a information launch. Montgomery County officers stated one other 23 there have been handled for accidents at hospitals.
And the Nashville Emergency Operation Middle stated in a put up on a social media account that one other three individuals have been killed by extreme storms there.
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Workplace famous it was ”nonetheless within the search and rescue part of this catastrophe.”
”We have been hit very laborious by a twister right here in Clarksville and Montgomery County,” Montgomery County Mayor Wes Golden stated in a video posted to social media Saturday night.
Police and firefighters in Clarksville have been responding to a number of studies of injury within the northern a part of town, which is positioned north of Nashville close to the Kentucky state line.
”We nonetheless have loads of energy traces down, there are loads of areas which are unsafe,” Golden stated.
Residents have been requested to remain at house whereas first responders evaluated the state of affairs.
”We all know there’s intensive harm all through the neighborhood, so we have to deal with households who’re desperately in want of assist,” Clarksville Mayor Joe Pitts stated within the video.
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The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Workplace stated in an earlier assertion {that a} twister touched down round 2 p.m. native time and broken a number of houses.
A shelter was arrange at an area highschool.
Based on utility tracker PowerOutage.us, greater than 76,000 clients have been with out energy in Tennessee as of Saturday evening. The Tennessee metropolis of Springfield, positioned about 30 miles east of Clarksville, reported Saturday evening that energy was out to all the metropolis, and requested its residents to remain off the roads.
The Nationwide Climate Service issued a number of twister warnings in Tennessee, and stated it deliberate to survey an space the place an obvious twister hit in Kentucky.
The storm got here almost two years to the day after the Nationwide Climate Service recorded 41 tornadoes by a handful of states, together with 16 in Tennessee and eight in Kentucky. A complete of 81 individuals died in Kentucky alone.