41.   Tennessee Gov. Don Sundquist inspected a mall in Nashville where one tornado struck, flipping cars and a tractor-trailer and damaging two dozen businesses.

42.   The National Weather Service could not immediately confirm that tornadoes had struck the area.

43.   The National Weather Service could not immediately confirm that tornados had struck the area.

44.   The tornado struck without any warning siren being sounded, because the siren had been knocked out by lightning in a recent storm.

45.   The tornadoes struck shortly after midnight.

46.   The tornado struck a shopping center, said Jeff Hovis, a weather service meteorologist in Paducah.

47.   The tornado struck without any warning siren being sounded, because the siren had been knocked out by lightning in a recent storm, authorities said.

48.   The tornadoes struck shortly after midnight as a line of thunderstorms rumbled through the Southeast, scarring property from Arkansas to Georgia.

49.   The tornadoes struck southwest Georgia early Monday as people slept.

50.   The tornados struck after a gap of nearly four hours.