Severe storms overnight Friday and early Saturday morning spawned high winds and caused damage in parts of Oklahoma.
Expect a soggy Saturday, June 7, as more rain and thunderstorms are expected at least throughout the morning.
Tornado warning sirens blared in the Oklahoma City metro area after midnight but no significant damage has been reported in the area.
A van drives through standing water on Kelly Ave in Edmond, Okla., Wednesday, April, 30, 2025. Storms with damaging winds and possible tornadoes moved through Oklahoma overnight Saturday, June 7. More stormy weather is expected in parts of the state over the weekend.
But downed trees and power lines were reported in Grant County in northern Oklahoma. Storm trackers at multiple news stations also reported a tornado on the ground overnight near the Oklahoma-Texas border in the town of Sweetwater, although experts with the National Weather Service said various locations across the state needed further investigation.
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“Nothing has been confirmed yet, so we’ve still got to take a look at it more in-depth and then go from there,” said Ryan Bunker, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Norman. “We had a 70 mph wind gust in Sayre in Beckham County; a 69 mph wind gust in Warr Acres, which is in Oklahoma County; and a 71 mph wind in Buffalo, and that’s in Harper County. We had several 60+ mph wind reports all over the place.”
According to OG&E, the state’s largest electric utility, the hardest-hit areas were Alva, Enid and Poteau. OG&E also reported around 9,500 customers without power just before 9:45 a.m. Saturday.
The highest risk of severe weather later Saturday is expected south of the metro area and toward the east, according to the National Weather Service.
“We’re watching a residual boundary that’s going to be hanging around from the morning’s storms near the Red River, so really the area we’re most concerned about with additional storms later (Saturday) is going to be primarily south-central and southeastern Oklahoma,” Bunker said. “Not to say that we can’t get storms further to the north, but just given the overall evolution of (Saturday) morning’s storms, it seems the best chances for anything severe is going to be across southern Oklahoma.”
This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: Storms bring damaging winds overnight to parts of Oklahoma.