Tennessee Woman Dies After Storm Causes Tree to Fall on Her

A Tennessee woman died Thursday after strong storms south of Nashville caused a tree to fall on her.

The tree fell on the woman just after 2 p.m., according to a report by ABC’s Nashville affiliate, WKRN.

The tree fell next to her house, located in Maury County, but fell on her in her yard, per investigators with the Maury County Fire Department.

Although witnesses tried to perform CPR on the woman, whose name was not released, she was pronounced dead at the scene, WKRN reported.

Severe thunderstorms have rolled across much of the Midwest and the mid-Atlantic this week, which have canceled thousands of flights at several major airports across the country.