Along with a dramatic sound and light show, Monday night’s storms also brought more welcome rain, adding to small amounts that fell over the weekend.

Cimarron Electric Cooperative’s storm related outages peaked at about1,600 customers at 9:30 p.m. in the Cashion/Guthrie/North Oklahoma City area, CEO Mark Snowden reported.

“Nearly all were restored by 1:30 a.m. and we have all but eight [customers] restored as of 9 a.m. [Tuesday],” Snowden said. “Lots of fuses were blown due to the incredible lightning.”

High winds also brought two poles down on S.H. 74 near the S.H. 33 junction, but Snowden said the coop’s investment in clearing trees out of electrical lines over the past several years prevented lines or poles being pulled down by tree limbs.

Kingfisher City Manager Dave Slezickey said work on the city’s power grid also prevented major outages within the city limits.

“Electric Department Supt. Mark Gambill and his crew have drastically improved system maintenance, and – knock on wood – OG&E incoming transmission has been stable,” he said.

“We had an outage on West Elks Road and at First Shamrock Nursing Home that our crews worked.

“The car wash also was without power from the storms but no one noticed until Tuesday morning and crews got them fixed up.”

As August’s heat continues, any rainfall helps freshen summer crops, lawns, pastures and gardens and recharges livestock ponds.

Kingfisher received a total of 2.50 inches over a three-day time frame, Local Weather Observer Steve Loftis reported.

Loftis recorded .15 inch of rain at 7 a.m. Sunday, then an additional .35 inch on Monday and 1.75 inches on Tuesday (all from the preceding 24 hours) at the National Weather Service station in Kingfisher.

Heavier rainfall amounts were recorded east of Kingfisher with Cashion Grain and Feed elevator measuring three inches and Twila Adams reporting 3.5 inches from rainfall Monday evening,

Cashion Grain and Feed also recorded one inch of rain Sunday morning from an overnight thunderstorm.

Ronnie Fry reported between .9 and 1.25 inches in the Omega area on Sunday morning.

Other reports from across the county included:

Hennessey –  .8 inch on Sunday morning and a trace Tuesday morning.

Dover – .5 inch Sunday morning at the Jack Witt residence northwest of Dover and a trace Tuesday morning. Jeremy Ingle northeast of Dover said there was not enough rain to measure on either date.

Jon Cochran Sr. at Loyal reported 1.2 inches of rain on Sunday morning and .3 inch Tuesday morning.

Mike Reid, southwest of Kingfisher reported .7 inch of rain Sunday morning and 2.8 inches Tuesday morning.

An unofficial gauge along Shafenberg Road east of Kingfisher registered a half inch Sunday and 2.1 inches on Tuesday.

One source reported 4.2 inches in the Kingfisher vicinity.

Dan and Brenda Slater southeast of Okarche reported 1.75 inches of rain Tuesday morning.

The Mesonet site on the Mueggenborg farm immediately west of Kingfisher recorded 1.23 inches Tuesday and a three-day total of 1.73 inches.

Other Mesonet readings from across the region Tuesday included Minco 1.7, Guthrie 1.41, Weatherford 1.62, Norman 1.33, Spencer 2.25, El Reno .75 and Chickasha 1.10.