Weather quiets down for cleanup after destructive Tennessee tornadoes

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As dozens of people recover from injuries sustained in an EF3 tornado, there is a little bit of good news for the communities beginning the long process of rebuilding.

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00:00 Our top story tonight is continuing recovery in middle Tennessee after Saturday's deadly

00:05 tornado outbreak. This as we're getting a look at just how powerful those storms were.

00:09 Incredible new dash cam video shows the moment a driver in Clarksville was caught in an EF3 tornado

00:16 battling 150 mile an hour winds. You can see lightning, poles bending, debris flying,

00:22 and then the windshield cracking. But the driver kept going and fortunately was not injured.

00:27 Amazing. And Nashville Electric Service has released video of an explosion at an electrical

00:33 substation in Madison, Tennessee. Officials confirmed the explosion was the source of a

00:38 fireball seen across Nashville during Saturday's tornado outbreak. The substation sustained

00:43 significant damage as an EF2 tornado ripped through the town. Power restoration efforts

00:49 continue tonight with about 3,000 people still in the dark. Fortunately, the weather has quieted

00:55 down as cleanup continues across the region. And this is all in the Nashville, Tennessee area.

01:01 And the forecast for Nashville for cleanup efforts continues to be nice. We've got good weather

01:07 here, sunshine for the next three days, mild afternoon highs near 60 degrees. We will continue

01:13 to see the cold mornings. I mean, we were down below freezing this morning. And you look at the

01:17 forecast for low temperatures tonight in northern Tennessee, southern Kentucky. These are the areas

01:22 that got hit with a tornadic damage over the weekend. Yes, for those without power, and there

01:27 are still thousands, we have to make sure that these people have a way to stay warm with low

01:32 temperatures tonight, near freezing or below. Now, the numbers are still coming in from the

01:37 confirmed tornadoes from this past weekend. The number is now up to 15 confirmed tornadoes

01:42 covering several states. You see them right there. And there was one EF3 tornado. That was the

01:48 Clarksville, Tennessee tornado where we just saw that dash cam video from. Amazing that person made

01:53 it through. This storm, remember folks, was on the ground for an hour, this tornado, in the afternoon

01:59 on Saturday. And the path length was 43 miles as it made its way from Clarksville, Tennessee all

02:05 the way to near Russellville, Kentucky. There was also a confirmed EF2 tornado with winds well over

02:12 100 miles an hour as well. The path length for this one between White Bluff and Ashland City,

02:17 Tennessee was 14 miles. There were no injuries or deaths with this storm, unlike the Clarksville,

02:24 Tennessee tornado where there were three deaths and dozens of injuries.

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