More than 61,000 Nashville Electric Services customers remained without power Tuesday afternoon following two consecutive days of severe storms across Middle Tennessee.
The number of those affected is down from 81,000 earlier this morning. The company's online outage map has also been restored after a technical issue.
The utility company said crews continued to work around the clock to restore electricity to Nashville residents.
"Also 36 new bucket trucks and crews arrived yesterday from Ohio to assist us," the spokesperson said. "They are starting this morning."
Crews from Kentucky are also assisting.
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Decosta Jenkins, NES president and CEO, said crews restored power to tens of thousands of customers earlier on Monday, but storms that rolled in later that night caused another 15,000 outages.
DeCosta has said it could take at least one week to fully restore power.
"For those of you who don't have power we understand this is hard for you," Jenkins said. "You are our top priority and we will be working 24-7 to get power restored to you."
Metro Nashville Public Works Director Mark Sturtevant said at least 15 traffic signals were out Tuesday morning across the city due to the storms.
“As if this morning we’re down to 27 situations where we are working with NES to get those lines cleared,” Sturtevant said.
In areas outlying Davidson County, more than 11,400 Middle Tennessee Electric Membership Corporation customers also remained without power on Tuesday.
A majority of them did not have power in Wilson and Williamson counties.
More rain expected Tuesday
Forecasters say rain could start falling again across the mid-state about 10 a.m. Tuesday.
"There could be some thunderstorms but there's a low chance of severe weather," said Scott Unger, a meteorologist with the the National Weather Service in Nashville.
Areas east of the Interstate 65 corridor and the Cumberland Plateau will see the most rainfall, Unger said.
About a half-inch of rain is anticipated followed by sunny skies and high temperatures in the upper 70s.
Earlier severe storms
Storms and high winds blew through the greater Nashville area Monday night, on the heels of a major Sunday night storm that caused major damage across the region.
"The area of enhanced winds this evening is the result of what is known as a "wake low," the National Weather Service tweeted late Monday night. "A wake low sometimes forms in the wake of a thunderstorm complex like we had earlier. It is quite rare to experience one this intense."
So far no major damage or fatalities have been reported across the region as a result of Monday night's severe weather.
According to NWS preliminary findings, the Sunday windstorm was most likely a derecho, which can cause major wind damage much like a tornado.
It was most likely the worst straight-line wind event to cross Middle Tennessee since the July 13, 2004, derecho, NWS reported.
In Nashville, at one point more than 130,000 people lost power because of damaged utility poles.
As of Tuesday, Nashville Mayor John Cooper said, NES had restored power to 49,000 customers since Sunday's mass outage on Sunday.
“I’m grateful to the hard working lineman and technicians at NES who have been working around the clock, Cooper said Tuesday.
Numerous trees were downed across Davidson and Williamson, damaging several homes and cars. One Spring Hill firefighter was killed and three other people were injured by falling trees due to the storms.
To report an outage, call 615-234-0000.
Customers without power after receiving a call from NES, are asked to re-report their outage at that same number.
Reach Natalie Neysa Alund at nalund@tennessean.com and follow her on Twitter @nataliealund.
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