Storm sirens in Kingfi sher sounded for the first time in several years Saturday for reasons other than being tested.

Fortunately, most of the sirens worked and the storm that prompted their firing caused no major reported damage. near Hinton and made its way through the western portion of Canadian County before it began its trek through Kingfisher County.

Deatherage and his crew as well as several other storm chasers followed the storm through the county.

“It cycled quite a bit and it was pretty much rain-wrapped as it came through,” Deatherage said. “That made it very hard to get a good visual on the storm itself so we had to follow it by having the radar up in our vehicles.”

At one time, weather forecasters said the storm could turn east and head right for Okarche, but it stayed west.

Then the same was said as it trekked toward Kingfi sher as the sirens were sounded just before 5 p.m.

Again, the storm skirted the west side of the city and eventually crossed U.S. Highway 81 before making it to Dover, moving along “There have been no reports,” said Kingfisher County Emergency Management Director Ryan Deatherage when asked about potential damage from a storm system that moved its way through the county from the southwest portion to the northeast.

The storm system was part of an overall weather event that produced an outbreak of more than two dozen tornadoes beginning before 10 a.m. Saturday and into the early morning hours of Sunday.

The system that moved through Kingfisher County briefly produced a tornado said. “I guess it just the east side of that town.

All the while, the county was under a tornado warning from the National Weather Service.

“There has been no confirmation of any tornado here or of anything touching down,” Deatherage kept cycling while it moved through here.”

The storm did bring some rain, but not the amounts of other parts of the state that received upward of 5 inches.

Steve Loftis reported a combined .35 inch in Kingfi sher.

Just west of Kingfisher, Tom Arms reported exactly 1 inch.

Other reports northeast of Dover showed 1 inch while another in Dover was reportedly at 2.5 inches.

According to the Mesonet, Blackwell received 5.86 inches Saturday and into Sunday morning while Newkirk saw 4.14 inches.

The most severe storms were in southern Oklahointo ma.

Tornadoes ripped through the likes of Marietta, damaging a major retail warehouse among other structures, and destroyed much of downtown Sulphur Saturday night.

The Marietta tornado was upgraded to an EF4, which means it produced winds from 166 to 200 miles per hour.

It was the first tornado to produce EF4 damage in Oklahoma since May 9, 2016.

Data was still being collected for the Sulphur tornado.

Mesonet data shows as much as 5.09 inches of rain falling in McAlester while Sulphur received more than 4 inches.