Overnight storms knock out power for thousands in Middle Tennessee

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) — The ongoing severe weather cut power to thousands of Middle Tennessee residents overnight from Monday to Tuesday.

For the Metro Nashville area, Nashville Electric Service reported more than 11,000 customers without electricity at one point, which was reduced to just over 10,000 as of 3 a.m.

The Cumberland Electric Membership Corporation is reporting that more than 1,100 customers are experiencing an outage, with the most being near the southern Clarksville and Pleasant View areas.

Several hundred residents in the city of Clarksville are reporting outages, with more than 600 showing on CDE Lightband’s outage map as of 3 a.m.

Middle Tennessee Electric, which covers residents in Williamson, Rutherford, and Wilson counties, reports that more than 1,000 customers have lost power. Most of the outages are being reported in the Fairview area.

Dickson County residents are also getting hit pretty hard, as Dickson Electric System reports more than 5,600 customers without power.

Down south, the Lawrenceburg Utility Systems has a little more than 1,000 residents without electricity.