The National Weather Service forecasts a week of fairly clear weather, providing an opening for the county small grain harvest to take off.

Weekend rain – and in some cases hail in the Hennessey area – continued to hamper county harvesting operations.

Kingfisher received .8 inch of rain on Saturday night and early Sunday along with strong winds.

Both the local Mesonet site west of Kingfisher on the Mueggenborg farm and National Weather Service Observer Steve Loftis recorded .8 inch of rain Sunday.

Other area Mesonet rainfall reports showed 1.2 inches at Guthrie, .38 inch at Watonga, .56 inch at El Reno and 1.61 inches at Marshall in southern Garfield County.

County Commissioner Ray Alan Shimanek of Hennessey said hail wiped out a number of grain fields over the weekend and delayed harvesting of fields that survived the stormy weather.

High winds destroyed buildings and ripped up trees further east in the state, particularly in the west Tulsa vicinity.

Some parts of that area aren’t projected to see power returned until Saturday.

More locally, OG&E reported more than 120,000 outages due to the storms.

As of 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, 92 percent of those customers had been restored as 4,000 operations personnel worked to make repairs.

As of that time, OG&E had shipped 2,000 crossarms, 68 miles of wire and 366 poles across its service area to repair grid damage.

Some of those crews were working north of Hennessey, though no major, long-term outages had been reported inside of Kingfisher County.