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Storms cause damage, outages
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Straight-line winds caused some damage and knocked out electricity as severe thunderstorms rolled across southern Oklahoma on Wednesday, authorities said.
There were no reports of injuries with the storms.
In Haskell County, a sheriff’s deputy reported a tornado touching down about 6 p.m. near Enterprise, but a man answering the phones at the county emergency management operations center said trained spotters only reported seeing a wall cloud.
The man, who declined to give his name, says there was scattered tree damage in the county, particularly in the Kinta area. He said a small building was blown away and the National Weather Service received a report of a boat being flipped an unknown distance from one yard into another in the town.
The weather service received a wind gust of 70 mph in the Kinta area, as well as an 80 mph gust in Velma in Stephens County. Other wind gusts included 65 mph in Terlton in Pawnee County and 60 mph near Panama in Le Flore County, according to the weather service’s Web site.
The storms also toppled trees, fences and power lines in several other counties, including Garvin County, where a roof was reportedly blown off a storage facility, officials said.
No other significant damage was reported.
More than 4,100 outages, including 1,271 homes and businesses in Pauls Valley, were reported, according to Oklahoma Gas and Electric’s Web site.
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