The most powerful Tennessee tornado reached 150 mph. Days later, thousands remain without power.

The National Weather Service has confirmed several tornadoes tore through Middle Tennessee on Saturday.

More: Deadly tornadoes cause damage across Middle Tennessee

Of those, details have emerged about the strongest and most damaging:

• In the Montgomery County area, an EF-3 tornado first touched down on Fort Campbell, causing mostly tree damage at first. It strengthened and damaged dozens of homes along Garrettsburg Road near Purple Heart Highway and destroyed dozens more mobile and manufactured homes south of Britton Springs Road. Near Eva Drive, it shifted several houses off their foundations before crossing Highway 41 and striking several commercial businesses. Only the interior remains of a fast food restaurant and strip mall. North of Ringgold Road, it struck several homes, leaving them significantly damaged, and destroyed four two-story brick and vinyl siding homes on Henry Place Boulevard. This is where the three fatalities in the area occurred. On Peachers Mill Road, the tornado tore the roofs off of two dozen new, two-story brick apartments and off of dozens more houses along and near Needmore Road and Tiny Town Road. As it started to weaken, the tornado still caused roof and siding damage to dozens of homes along Tylertown Road before moving into Kentucky. This tornado impacted nearly 1,000 homes, including 114 homes destroyed and 268 homes with major damage, and three people killed and 62 more injured.
• In Davidson and Sumner counties, an EF-2 tornado with winds up to 125 mph hit Madison particularly hard. The heaviest damage was off of East Campbell Road and Nesbitt Lane. The three fatalities in the area occurred at the latter street. Police identified the deceased as Joseph Dalton, 37; Floridema Gabriel Perez, 31; and her son, Anthony Elmer Mendez, 2. Police say Dalton was inside his mobile home on Nesbitt Lane when the storm’s winds rolled the home on top of Perez’s residence. Perez’s 7-year-old son and Dalton’s 10-year-old son were both in their homes at the time and have been transported to Vanderbilt’s children’s hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Houses along Nesbitt Lane had their roofs torn off and windows blown in. On East Campbell Road, multiple homes and a church had large sections of their roofs torn off, with some exterior walls collapsed.
• In Dickson County, another EF-2 tornado with max wind speed 125 mph traveled over 5 miles, hitting the Cumberland Furnace area particularly hard. It touched down near the intersection of Woods Valley Road and Bone Road, snapping pine trees and causing roof damage to a home. On Highway 48, it caused the most significant damage to another home, where the top floor was completely torn off. On Freeman Loop, the tornado struck and destroyed an A-frame home and then did substantial damage to a mobile home and snapped dozens of trees before finally lifting off the ground after crossing Bartons Creek.
• In Robertson County, another EF-2 tornado with winds up to 120 mph traveled more than 3 miles, through Springfield mostly. It initially touched down near Fairway Trail and Kemper Court, snapping and uprooting hardwood trees and crumpling the garage door of one home. Northeast, near the Kroger shopping center on Highway 41, the tornado gained strength, tearing the roof off a Valvoline, significantly damaging multiple metal siding structures in a nearby industrial area, striking a fire department and strip mall, and finally bending a steel transmission pole. After weakening slightly, it uprooted trees and caused minor roof damage to homes on Greystone Drive and Sloan Lane. The tornado finally lifted near the intersection of Oakland Road and Highway 76.

Repairs begin, as thousands remain without power

Across Middle Tennessee, outages peaked Saturday at more than 85,000 customers without power. Over 48,000 Nashville Electric Service customers lost power — and about 5,500 are still without power as of 5:30 p.m. Monday.

“We’re going to make great strides today and tomorrow, but it’ll be toward the end of the week, possibly, before every single customer is restored,” said Vice President of Power System Operations Jack Baxter at a press conference Monday.

Baxter explained that the storm’s path went straight through several major pieces of electrical infrastructure, resulting in a higher number of outages. In the span of just a few hours, tornadoes knocked down 156 electrical polls, toppled a major transmission tower and hit substations in Madison and Hendersonville.

For context, a tornado has not directly hit a Nashville Electric substation since the 1970s.

“I’ve been here 26 years. This is the first time we’ve had a substation take a direct hit,” said Baxter. “If we’d had just a quarter of a mile deviation in that path, either way, we would not have had any of the substation damages.”

There are currently over 300 repair crews at work, including some who have travelled from Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio.

Some dramatic explosions and lots of sparks — you can see when debris from the tornado hits the NES substation in Madison. pic.twitter.com/363KqUEWtd

— Rose Gilbert (@roseamgilbert) December 11, 2023

This is a developing story and will be updated as new information becomes available.

This post was last updated 5:30 p.m. Monday.