If thunder, lightning, rain or high winds didn’t wake up some Kingfisher County residents on Monday morning, something else might have.

Tornado sirens. Sirens sounded in the early morning hours in Loyal, Dover and Hennessey, according to Kingfi sher County Emergency Management Director Ryan Deatherage.

Storms tracked their way through Oklahoma starting in the far southwestern part of the state very early in the morning.

Moving to the northeast, the line of storms that produced multiple tornadoes, including a funnel cloud near Watonga, found their way into Kingfisher County just before 6 a.m.

Deatherage, who tracked the storm until it was out of the county, said sirens sounded in Loyal around 5:45 a.m. and the other two communities not long after.

It did some damage before leaving and Deatherage hasn’t ruled out the possibility of it being a tornado.

He said three barns were reported damaged about one-half mile south of State Highway 51 on County Road N2970, about 10 miles east of Hennessey.

OG&E lost about seven electric poles in that area as well, Deatherage said.

“We believe it was a tornado, but that’s not official yet,” Deatherage said. “It could have just been extremely high winds, but we do know there was circulation in that area.”

The National Weather Service was still gathering information to make the official determination on all potential tornadoes from the storm system.

“We’re still digging through the data from early this morning, but we’ll be adding several tornadoes to our count,” according to a NWS Norman post on X (formerly Twitter). “Oklahoma had already set a November record for tornadoes prior to today (16), and we’ll end up somewhere around double our previous November record.”

That record was 12, which was set in 1958.

Deatherage encouraged anyone who did suffer damage to the storm to contact his office at 405-375-2794 so he could turn the information over to the NWS.