Kingfisher County experienced a power outage lasting about three hours last Friday evening.

Kingfisher City Clerk Brittney Hladik reported the disruption in power resulted from an outage on OG&E lines. OG&E is the city’s primary electrical supplier.

Residents from Dover to Okarche were out of power as a result of the outage.

While Kingfisher has a power plant, which it can use in times of emergency and to supplement Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority when needed, it takes an extended period of time to get the plant up and running after it has been idle.

Thus, it would have taken as long to energize lines with locally-produced electricity as to wait for OG&E power to return.

The electrical outage particularly affected the United Supermarket in Kingfisher, which lost power to its freezing and cooling units, causing damage that required equipment repairs.

United Supermarket officials said Tuesday work was under way to repair the damaged equipment, but hoped everything would be running normally again “in a couple of days.”

OG&E reported that severe storms moving through its service area over the weekend - beginning Friday morning - included damaging winds of 65 to 75 miles per hour and lightning.

Those systems, though nothing severe reached Kingfisher County, led to the outages.

While the eastern part of the state received heaviest damage, the damage to the grid affected other communities depending on OG&E power.

With hot temperatures expected across the state – a high of 104 degrees was forecasted for Tuesday and 102 degrees on Wednesday before cooler temperatures return Thursday, OG&E recommended the following: “Please visit oge.com/ coolzones for a list of cooling centers and check on family, friends and neighbors to make sure they have a plan to stay cool during the heat.”