Severe winds caused damage across parts of Kentucky and Tennessee — and left 77,000 people in Nashville without power Monday afternoon.
Two schools saw parts of their roofs torn up in Tennessee, where 22 counties reported damage, according to WSMV-TV.
Nashville not only saw power outages from downed trees but two workers at its airport were hurt while on the job Monday.
A possible twister tore into part of an auto sealing plant in southeastern Kentucky, tearing a truck-sized hole into the building, but causing only a few bumps and bruises to seven of its 184 employees.
Robin Smith, meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said there have also been unconfirmed tornadoes near Greenville affecting a mobile home park and causing one minor injury to a child who was treated on site, and in Ballard County, near the town of Slater.
The seven injured at the TG Automotive Sealing plant were taken to a local hospital, said Paul Ray, spokesman for the Hopkinsville Police Department. The other staff are all accounted for, he said.
Ray said it looked like someone had driven a "semi-truck" through the side of the aluminum building, and that bits of aluminum were found in nearby trees.
Ray couldn't say how the employees escaped serious injury. "It was noon, maybe they were at lunch," Ray said.