Miami ( CNN ) -- Severe weather has damaged more than 50 homes in several Florida towns , officials said , and schools in the Florida Keys were canceled Wednesday because of heavy rain and frequent lightning . No serious injuries were reported . Damage assessments were under way in Plantation and Sunrise , Florida , after a suspected tornado swept through south Florida about 10 p.m. Tuesday . At the time , a tornado warning for the area was expiring , said Joel Gordon , battalion chief for the Plantation Fire Department . Gordon said about 25 homes were damaged in Plantation . In Sunrise , another 25 were damaged , with six classified as uninhabitable , according to city spokeswoman Christine Pfeffer . `` You 're in your house one minute and the next minute everything is moving , the house has shifted , '' said Laila Najm of Plantation , who was home with her mother and dog when the storm hit . A tree fell on her home , causing the roof to leak , she said , and the house came off its foundation . Windows were broken , debris and standing water littered her porch and the home lacked running water on Wednesday . Her car windows were broken as well . `` We 're so used to hurricanes here , '' she said . `` It sounded like a hurricane but a thousand times stronger . But you feel it surrounding you , you can physically feel it coming from one side of you to the other side . All the windows shifted . The house just started moving , shifting up . '' Three people sustained minor injuries in Plantation , but none were transported to a hospital , Gordon said . Some gas leaks from propane cylinders were reported , he said , and `` we were able to secure those without any major damage or issues . '' National Weather Service personnel were in the area , Pfeffer said . Gordon said numerous trees were downed . `` The biggest thing we 're trying to get out to the public is to please stay off the roads , '' he said . `` The roads in this area are very small , they 're tight . We have to get big equipment through . '' Damage was also reported in Indiantown , about 75 miles north of Plantation . A VFW building was `` completely destroyed , '' with its roof ripped off , said Bill Schobel , spokesman for Martin County Fire and Rescue . The building was unoccupied at the time , he said . No injuries were reported . A barn was also destroyed , and a house next to the VFW was damaged , he said . The homeowner reported `` it sounded like a freight train coming through the house , '' Schobel said . The first call into Martin County Fire and Rescue came in about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday , he said . The region had been under a tornado watch for most of the day , and a tornado warning was issued in the early evening , he said . Monroe County , Florida , which encompasses the Keys , canceled schools Wednesday as bands of thunderstorms with frequent lightning moved through , according to a statement from Sunny Booker , safe school coordinator for the county school district . The National Weather Service issued a flood advisory for the area , the notice said . `` Bands of thunderstorms with frequent lightning are hitting the middle and lower Keys , '' the statement said . `` A secondary cell of storms is moving eastward which is expected to impact all of Monroe County for several hours . The superintendent does not want students at bus stops in standing water with the frequent lightning . '' CNN 's Chris Youd contributed to this report .
Rain , lightning prompt school cancellation in the Florida Keys . Comment: No serious injuries have been reported .