Nashville weather

• NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Vanderbilt and Tennessee have resumed the second half of their game at the Southeastern Conference womens tournament after a delay because of a tornado warning in the area.
(Huffington Post)
• The Nashville music community is bracing for heavy storms today as tornado watches and warnings have residents on high alert.
(Taste of Countroy)
• A meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Nashville says a storm system set to move through Middle Tennessee today is stronger than the system that produced two tornadoes and killed three people in Cumberland and DeKalb counties on Wednesday.
(Nashville Tennessean)
• HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A University of Connecticut shuttle bus driver accused of running over and killing a fellow student in a campus crosswalk last year will be taking a plea deal, his lawyer said Friday.
(WKRN)
• severe weather in the Nashville area surrounding the 2012 SEC Womens Basketball Tournament, and is carefully monitoring the situation. At this time, all games at the tournament will be played as scheduled.
(WBIR)
• Isolated storms moved through the Mid-State early Friday morning and the threat of severe weather persists through the afternoon and evening hours.
(WKRN)
• according to the 4WARN weather team. Nashvilles Office of Emergency Management activated their emergency command at noon. The storms contained a very high risk for tornadoes, wind, hail and localized flooding, and some reports of damage have begun to come in.
(msnbc.com)
• 5:53 p.m. Trained weather spotter reports tornado on the ground near Rickman No injuries reported. 5:17 p.m. Nashville Electric Service is now reporting nearly 5,000 customers without power in Davidson County.
(msnbc.com)
• In Nashville, the start of the second half of the Southeastern Students were held at schools at the end of the day to avoid going out in the weather.
(Nashville Tennessean)
• NASHVILLE, Tenn.-Mayor Dean announced Friday afternoon that due to the severe weather threat in middle Tennessee, all non-essential government employees would be allowed to leave early. The announcement came around 3 p.m. on Friday.
(WTVF)