WESTMORELAND, Tenn. -- The National Weather Service confirmed that a EF1 tornado hit eastern Sumner County on Thursday night, causing widespread damage, but no report of serious injuries.

The tornado hit three miles west of Westmoreland and damaged several homes, downed trees that blocked roads and knocked out electricity to more than 2,500 customers.

Channel 4 Pinpoint Meteorologist Lisa Spencer said the Sumner County storm suddenly popped up, and it did not show normal characteristics on radar that were typical of other tornadoes.

The NWS said the tornado packed winds of 95-100 mph, was 100 yards wide and had a three-mile path of destruction.

"At least a few hundred trees were snapped or uprooted," said National Weather Service meteorologist Bobby Boyd. Some of those trees blocked roads and snapped power lines, leaving more than 2,500 households without power. But only a few homes were damaged, none severely.

Some of the worst damage was along Old Highway 52. Officials toured the storm damage on Friday morning.

Sumner County Emergency Management said the tornado hit at about 11 p.m. and damaged 11 houses, three mobile homes and seven barns.

Rains May Have Contributed To I-40 Wreck

The heavy rain maybe to blame for a wreck at 9:45 p.m. Thursday on Interstate 40 in west Nashville. A tractor-trailer jackknifed at mile marker 200, and a car hit it. Two people were taken to the hospital.

A confirmed tornado also touched down in Lexington, Tenn., on Thursday night, according to emergency officials.

There were also reports of wind damage in Henderson and Perry counties.

F-1 Tornado Hits Memphis

Earlier in the day, a tornado struck the Wolfchase area of Shelby County, east of Memphis.

Jim Branda, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Memphis, said a tornado there hit just before 5 p.m. Thursday with winds between 80 and 90 miles an hour. The EF-1 tornado was 250 yards wide and cut a five-mile swath of damage just south of Interstate 40 in Shelby County, east of the city.

There was also storm damage in the Midtown area of Memphis, and about 12,000 Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division customers were temporarily without power.

The tornado collapsed the south wall of a Kohl's department store before flipping a tractor-trailer in the store's parking lot and knocking over street lights. The tornado then hit a small shopping center nearby, a restaurant and a neighboring gas station before reaching a subdivision, where it damaged at least 50 homes.

Andre Chatman, an employee at a Verizon Wireless store, said when the tornado approached he could feel the air pressure increase in the building.

"I felt it in my ears, like on a plane," he said.

Next door at the Smoothie King, Ashleigh Crawford and Mark Mitchell tried to lock the door but people kept coming to the store seeking shelter.

"People were knocking on the doors and saying, 'Let us in! Let us in!"' said Mitchell, 17. "They're saying, 'It's right behind us!"'

Crawford, 19, was still shaking an hour later.

"I still now feel like somebody punched me in the stomach," she said.