Strong storms which raked across Dunklin County Friday afternoon left damages in its wake, such as this metal building north Caruth which was reduced to twisted rubble. Staff photo by Terri Coleman [Click to enlarge]

Storms, packing strong winds, blew across southern Dunklin County Friday afternoon. No injuries were reported as a result of the storms, the Dunklin County Sheriff's office said Saturday morning.

Although there were reports of funnel clouds being sighted, the only damage reported was a metal building north of Caruth which ended up as a pile of twisted metal.

No so fortunate was the Kansas City area where twisters struck, cutting power and damaging buildings.

In all, four tornados were reported Thursday night and Friday morning hitting several communities in the area damaging or destroying hundreds of homes and businesses.

The National Weather Service said a EF3 tornado struck around 2 a.m. Friday, cutting a 75-foot-wide swath along a roughly two-mile stretch of north Kansas City near Liberty.

A second tornado Friday that hit a little farther south in Gladstone was an EF2 and touched down around the same time.

Two weaker, EF0 tornadoes hit Thursday night -- one near Plattsburg and the other near Belton -- but no homes were reported damaged, said Julie Adolphson, meteorologist in charge for the National Weather Service office in Pleasant Hill.

Officials determined that damage in Independence was not caused by a tornado. Winds in the Kansas City area reached 80 mph during the storms, weather officials said.

No serious injuries were reported. About 13,200 metro area customers had no power as of Friday afternoon, Kansas City Power & Light reported. At the peak of the storm, about 40,000 lost power.

Kansas City officials said more than 100 homes were damaged in the northeast part of the city. In Gladstone, officials said as many as 200 homes were damaged and 20 were destroyed.

Besides those communities and Independence, the National Weather Service also reported damage to homes in Riverside.