Several voting precincts were damaged in the tornadoes that ripped across Tennessee early Tuesday, causing officials to open polling places late or move to alternate locations as Super Tuesday voting was scheduled to begin.

Polling sites in Nashville and Wilson County were forced to open an hour late on Super Tuesday as a result of the natural disaster, The Tennessean reported, citing the Tennessee secretary of state. Those locations will still close at 7 p.m. as originally scheduled.

Election officials told the newspaper that voters in several other precincts needed to be directed to vote elsewhere because their original sites were either inaccessible due to the storm or without power.

Those officials also said all voters assigned to those unusable voting places were reassigned to new precincts.

The tornadoes ripped through Tennessee early Tuesday, leaving a death toll that currently stands at 19 after rising throughout the morning. Hundreds have been left homeless by the twisters, which flattened huge swaths of downtown Nashville.

Schools, courts, transit lines, an airport and the state Capitol were closed, and all non-essential state workers were ordered to stay home.

At least four energy substations were damaged, leaving 44,000 people without power, Nashville Electric tweeted.