Droppin’ Damage
Storms bring much-needed rain to county, but also harmful wind, hail
While much of Kingfisher County received helpful moisture late last Saturday night, the northern portion also got a dose of damaging winds and hail.
Reports of hail up to baseball size east of Hennessey surfaced after the storms.
Rachel Farnsworth lives 5 1/2 miles east and two miles north of Hennessey and shared a photo of the large hail and the damage it did to her vehicle, including knocking out the windows.
Darla O’Brien, who also lives east of Hennessey, shared photos of golf ball size hail at her home.
According to the Mesonet, the storm that delivered the hail also registered a wind gust as high as 54 miles per hour in Marshall at 11:45 p.m. Saturday.
North of Hennessey, strong winds overturned a fireworks stand and also destroyed a display storage building at the corner of U.S. Highway 81 and Exxon Road.
With the bad came some good.
Rain amounts in the county ranged from .2 inch at Cashion Elevator to 1.8 inches at Dover.
The Kingfisher Mesonet site recorded .43 inch.
Local Weather Observer Steven Loftis reported .45 inch at the National Weather Service site in Kingfisher.
Other area reports included: • .6 inch at the Tom Arms residence three miles west of Kingfisher
• .4 inch at the Twila Adams residence five miles east of Kingfisher
•.55 inch at Watonga
•.1 inch at El Reno
•.54 inch at Marshall Rosen residence east of Kingfisher • .5 inch at Dave Krittenbrink’s residence in Okarche • .22 inch at Cathy Howard’s residence northwest of Lacey, and, • 1.8 inches at the Elaine Stratton residence in Dover.
•.34 inch at Guthrie
•.5 inch at the CHS Elevator in Hennessey with one farmer reporting 1.5 inches east of town
•.69 inch at Juanita Krittenbrink’s residence northwest of Okarche
• .3 inch at the Mike