Tennessee storms kill multiple people: officials

STORY: :: Tennessee Emergency Management Agency

:: Officials accidental Tennessee storms killed respective and near hundreds without powerfulness oregon water

:: April 3, 2025

:: Nashville, Tennessee

:: Jackson Bond Of Paramount Sports

:: Mitchell Despot

:: Patrick Sheehan, Director, Tennessee Emergency Management Agency

"As of 4 p.m., we person 7500 connections, homes and businesses, that were inactive without power. So that fig continues to fluctuate and arsenic we spot dense storms determination through, beardown storms determination through, that fig volition creep up and past enactment crews volition reconstruct them. So our max powerfulness outages truthful acold was 15,400 earlier this morning. The utilities deed hardest close present are successful Chester County and Hardeman County, And the Henderson Water Department has a boil h2o advisory and the Hardeman County, the Grand Junction Water Department that has nary h2o close now. So for folks determination that request water, they should interaction their inferior for further instructions and the county, and those folks tin assistance get h2o to them. This tempest strategy has caused a fig of weather-related fatalities. We person confirmed with the Tennessee Department of Health present that we person 5 weather-related fatalities. So 1 each successful Carroll, McNairy, and Obion Counties and 2 successful Fayette County. We bash person a consciousness determination volition beryllium much and conscionable cognize that our reporting is deliberate."

Patrick Sheehan, the Director of the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency, confirmed 5 weather-related fatalities successful Carroll, McNairy, Obion, and Fayette counties.

The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency said astatine slightest 7,500 homes and businesses stay without electricity.

Governor Bill Lee visited the devastated municipality of Selmer successful McNairy County and described the concern arsenic "true devastation" with galore families displaced.

Ryan Husted, a National Weather Service meteorologist, warned of ongoing terrible upwind threats, including the imaginable for flash flooding and much terrible thunderstorms, peculiarly connected Saturday (April 5).