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9 confirmed tornadoes hit Middle Tennessee

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National Weather Service officials confirmed a total of seven 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.

Photos: Aftermath of Rutherford County tornado 

The tornado was the third tornado 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 counties, respectively. Two more were later confirmed in Hickman County. 

Grundy County also saw tornado damage, however it was from the same tornado that hit Franklin County earlier that morning.