Thunderstorms in the northern portion of Kingfi sher County Wednesday evening left much of the county without power.

Some residents didn’t see that power restored for nearly 24 hours.

Storms that featured heavy rains and high winds pushed through north of Dover and into Hennessey.

The CHS Elevator in Hennessey received 1.1 inch- es, but there were reports of three to four inches east of Hennessey.

The winds that accompanied that storm downed several OG&E transmission and distribution poles, knocking out power to residents in Hennessey, Dover, Kingfisher and Okarche among several others.

While most of those residents saw the power restored by about 10 p.m. Wednesday night, many Dover residents were without power into Thursday evening.

As of 4 p.m. Thursday, more than 320 people in Dover and 85 in Hennessey were still without power. A limited number of residents in Loyal and Kingfisher were also affected.

It was restored around 6:45 p.m. to most of them.

“Storms in the area downed 10 transmission poles as well as distribution poles and lines,” said an OG&E spokesperson about 5 p.m. Thursday. “OG&E crews have been working on restoring power safely and quickly since the outage was reported Wednesday night.”

Kingfisher received no rain Wednesday, but did record .25 inch Thursday evening at the National Weather Service station, according to Steve Loftis.

The Mesonet site on the Mueggenborg farm, west of Kingfisher, recorded .21 inch.

Further north, the rain totals increased.

Rick and Robin Johnston, northwest of Dover, reported a downpour brought .7 inch of rain in about 20 minutes on Wednesday.

Totals in Hennessey were 1 to 2 inches in most spots, but isolated areas had much more rain.

“It came at a time we didn’t need it,” a CHS Elevator spokesman said.

Area small grain fields are approaching harvest readiness but there have been no reports of grain arriving at elevators yet.

Fresh green growth is visible in a number of fields where harvest would be imminent otherwise.

While the recent rain has been beneficial to pastures, lawns and gardens, sunshine and warmer temperatures would be advantageous now for small grain crops.

Wheeler Brothers Grain in Kingfisher reported Friday that it has not even received any samples of grain as of that morning.