WATERTOWN — A possible tornado touched down near Watertown west of the Twin Cities overnight Friday, damaging buildings and flipping cars but apparently not injuring anyone, authorities said.

Meteorologists were inspecting the damage Saturday to determine if it was a tornado that caused the wreckage west of Watertown, which is in Carver County. The National Weather Service said radar observed an apparent tornado on the ground there for two to three minutes around midnight.

The worst storm damage appears to have been in rural Hollywood Township. One resident, Adam Falk, said he was sleeping in the basement when the storm hit and he was awakened by debris falling on him. He said all of the top-floor windows were destroyed and the doors were blown off their hinges.

“The barn is toast. … The whole first four feet of the roof sheeting on the house is gone so water got all the way down to the basement. Heavy water damage,” Falk told the station. He said he wasn’t sure if the home was salvageable.

Falk said his parents raise chickens and his sister has a couple horses on the hobby farm, but those animals seemed fine.

“The cat seemed rattled,” he added.

Xcel Energy said around 225,000 customers in Minnesota and western Wisconsin lost power during the overnight storms. Around 132,000 customers were still without power around 8:30 a.m. Saturday, mostly in the western Twin Cities metro area. The utility said its crews worked through the night, and that other crews from five states were dispatched to aid in restoring service, but the company said it didn’t have an immediate estimate on when power would be fully restored.

The storms brought down large trees in several suburbs. Wind gusts of up to 70 miles an hour were reported in St. Paul, Golden Valley, New Brighton, Maple Grove, Richfield and Lakeville.