KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Two small tornadoes from an overnight line of thunderstorms left hundreds of Kansas City-area homes and businesses damaged, destroying some.

The National Weather Service said a high-end EF3 tornado -- wind speeds between 111-135 mph -- hit around 2 a.m. Friday, cutting a 75-foot-wide swath along a roughly two-mile stretch of north Kansas City near Liberty.

Investigators determined a second tornado, an EF2, hit a little further south in Gladstone around the same time. Teams also were on the ground in Independence to determine if damage there was caused by a third tornado spawned on the leading edge of what the weather service has characterized as a bow echo.

"It's not atypical for small tornadoes to spin up out of these types of storms," National Weather Service meteorologist Suzanne Fortin said Friday.

No serious injuries have been reported. About 23,000 customers were without power across the metro area as of midmorning, Kansas City Power & Light reported. At the peak of the storm, about 40,000 lost power.

Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser said 100 homes suffered significant damage in the city alone. Gladstone Mayor Mark Revenaugh said as many as 200 homes were damaged in his suburb and 20 were destroyed. Fifteen businesses also were damaged in Gladstone.

The storms caused $40 million to $50 million in damage, city officials said.

The National Weather Service also reported damage in Independence and Riverside.

Officials said several people were injured.

"Only a couple of people hurt -- not bad -- a couple of stitches," Funkhouser said.

In northeast Kansas City, trees were knocked from their roots and laying along the roads and in ditches. Dozens of homes had chunks of their roofs missing. Some had their fences toppled. Police blocked off roads surrounding the damaged neighborhoods Friday.

Gladstone City Hall was without power, and calls were being rerouted to other city offices, city spokesman Sgt. Richard King said.

The city of 27,500 residents never set off warning sirens, King said, because it didn't receive any reports from the National Weather Service of tornado sightings when the storm hit at 2 a.m. King said Gladstone would review its warning system.

Home Ripped Off Foundation

Shawn Allen's home near Northeast 110th Street and North Skiles Avenue was torn off its foundation. His only injury was a sore knee. His dog -- who firefighters later rescued from the debris -- wasn't hurt.

When his bedroom door flew open, he got up and shut his bedroom window. Then his house lifted off its foundation, throwing him against a wall, Allen said.

He got out of his bedroom, ran down the hall and slipped and fell in the kitchen.

"At that time, some lightning flashed, and I was able to see that the side of the house was completely gone, so I was able to get out of the house at that point and get outside and whatnot and run over the neighbor's house," he said.

Later, firefighters got his dog out of the house.

"After all that, the fire department was able to get the dog out," Allen said. "They had to jack up the front of the house and whatnot to get her out. She was trapped under the front staircase, where she normally sleeps."

Dean White lives in the same area as Allen. He woke up when his house started shaking at about 2:30 a.m.

"I couldn't even get to the basement by the time it hit," White said. "I saw debris flying about 100, 200 feet in the air."

Woman Hurt By Flying Glass

Deanna Coca's father was out of town, so she and her siblings headed to her mother's room when the storm hit, she said.

"I walked into my mom's room to see what was happening, and then it just happened, and the window flew in open, and I got slammed against a wall, my sister got hit with a little bit of glass and my mom got cut," Coca said.

Her mother underwent emergency surgery Friday and received 54 stitches, but she was expected to recover from her injuries.

Neighborhoods, Business Districts Hit

Carol Rice was asleep on the upper level of her home near Northeast 77th Street and North Euclid Avenue in Gladstone when the storm hit.

"I was sleeping, and I was woke up by a ceiling falling in from up on the roof, and then I tried to get out, and the second bedroom, the door had flown off into the other room, so I had a hard time getting out," she said.

Surveying the debris left after the storm destroyed a pawn shop in his city, Gladstone council member Les Smith said, "It is quite amazing the power of these winds that came through town."

"Some of the residential areas are just a mess," Smith said. "We have some homes that have been badly damaged, a lot of tree damage, downed power lines."

In Independence, Mo., the storm destroyed an Arby's restaurant near East 23rd Street South and Missouri Highway 291.

"I pulled in the back parking lot, and I saw it was leveled, and it was like my heart just started pounding, so here I am, and I don't know what the next step is," said Debby Waterbury, an Arby's worker.

The roof and a couple of the walls blew over to a nearby business, the Truck, Trailer & Hitch Center, destroying some trailers and damaging the building.

The owner of the trailer company, Dale Campbell said he was going to try to get his business up and running as soon as possible and do what he needed to do for his employees.

"What are you going to do? Mother Nature ... she's going to do what she's going to do, and we just have to pick up the pieces," Campbell said.

At least two other fast food restaurants in Independence also were damaged.

In Kansas City, Mo., the Englewood Plaza Shopping Center at Northeast Englewood Road and North Oak Trafficway was damaged.

The playground equipment at the Kids Kickstart Campus day care in the area was strewn all over the parking lot and a parking lot across the street. About 100 children attend the day care facility.

"It's more heartbreaking for me to the parents that have to stay home today because we can't open. Luckily we'll be able to open soon, on Monday," said Angela Lukenbill, the owner. "We've just got to pick up the pieces now."

An 18-wheeler was blown over on Interstate 29 in Riverside, near five empty train cars that were toppled. Winds reached 80 miles per hour in the Kansas City area, the National Weather Service said.

Tornadoes Followed Line Of Storms

Julie Adolphson, meteorologist in charge for the National Weather Service office in Pleasant Hill said an initial line of isolated storms came through the Kansas City area between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. Thursday, producing several tornado warnings and setting off sirens across the area.

A second line of storms came through between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. Friday, producing a bow echo, a type of severe thunderstorm that sometimes produces small tornadoes but more typically involves damaging straight-line winds, Adolphson said.

Tornado warnings were posted in southwest Missouri overnight. The town of Ava is reporting several buildings are damaged or destroyed, including a school. Ozark schools are closed due to a power outage.