November 7, 2018
By: Dwayne Page
National Weather Service officials have confirmed a total of eight tornadoes hit the mid-state late Monday night into early Tuesday morning.
An EF1 tornado touched down in Cannon and DeKalb County Monday night into the early hours of Tuesday morning.
The twister damaged the home of Randy and Cheryl Campbell and other structures in the area of Adamson Branch Road off Highway 53 near Liberty just after 1 a.m. Tuesday morning.
The tornado was the third to be confirmed from the line of storms that pushed through the mid-state causing significant damage and even killing one person in Rutherford County.
NWS officials later confirmed three more tornadoes — two in Lawrence County and one in Wayne County. A seventh and eighth were later confirmed in White and Grundy county.