Showers drench Oklahoma's center

Early-morning showers drenched much of central Oklahoma on Thursday, bringing flooding, damaging winds, a tornado warning and a rainfall record for Oklahoma City.

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Temperatures

Top 10 coolest Octobers for Oklahoma City since 1891, based on average daily temperature:
→53.2: 1925
→55.7: 1895
→55.9: 2009
→56.2: 2002
→56.2: 1906
→56.5: 1976
→56.5: 1923
→57.1: 1993
→57.3: 1957
→57.3: 1917
Source: National Weather Service

Rainfall totals
Rainfall totals from the Oklahoma Mesonet in inches as of 6:30 p.m. Thursday:
→Pawnee: 2.84
→Vanoss: 2.69
→Bowlegs: 2.54
→Retrop: 2.39
→Stillwater: 2.35
→Fairview: 2.23
→West Oklahoma City: 2.19
→Cherokee: 2.14
→Perkins: 2.14
→Marshall: 2.11
→Sulphur: 2.02

A tornado warning was issued for Hughes and Pushmataha counties, but there was no confirmation that a funnel cloud touched down.

"We had strong indications on radar where we had one signature near Holdenville,” said meteorologist Kevin Brown of the National Weather Service in Norman. "As it went north, up closer to I-40, we did have reports of power poles down and a lot of tree damage.”

No injuries were reported from Thursday’s storms.

The National Weather Service received reports of wind damaging a metal barn and breaking several power poles south of Weleetka in Okfuskee County; a gust toppling a tree near Loco in Stephens County; and flooding in Pawnee in Pawnee County and Sperry in Tulsa County.

Mesonet sites recorded 2.19 inches in west Oklahoma City, 1.97 in north Oklahoma City and 1.47 in east Oklahoma City. Guthrie received 1.99 inches, Shawnee 1.68, Norman 1.63 and El Reno 1.38.

The highest rainfall through 6:30 p.m. was 2.84 inches at Pawnee.

• Oklahoma City’s average temperature for the month has been 55.9 degrees, third-coolest for an October since 1891. If the next two days are as cool as expected, the weather expects the state to finish at 55.7 degrees, tying 1895 for the second-coolest October. The coolest was 1925 at 53.2 degrees.

• The state’s more than 100 Mesonet sites have averaged recording 6.83 inches of rain for the first 29 days of October, the fifth-wettest time period since 1921. Southeast Oklahoma sites have recorded an average of more than 11 inches, which is 7 inches more than normal.

• A record for rainfall on an Oct. 29 was set in Oklahoma City on Thursday with 1.67 inches falling through 6 p.m. at Will Rogers World Airport, the National Weather Service reported. The previous record of 1.61 inches was set Oct. 29, 1941.

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