Heavy rain continues to pound southern Oklahoma tonight after a day of flooding and record rainfall.
Heavy rain fell on south and southwest Oklahoma, up through central Oklahoma and into the Tulsa area today, where rainfall amounts ranged from an inch and a half in most places to 2 inches in south central Oklahoma to more than 4 inches at Altus, Ringling and Waurika to 6 inches at Madill to the 11 inches at Burneyville, which shares a boundary with the more populated Falconhead Resort.
The wind has caused problems as well, hitting hardest in south-central Oklahoma, where a 65 mph gust at the Ada airport that damaged a hanger, three or four barns and a home. A guest estimated at 70 mph blew out a window at a Healdton school, causing minor injuries to students.
Areas south of a line from Elk City to Ardmore are under a severe thunderstorm watch. Areas south of a line from Lawton to Ardmore are under a flood warning. The Alva and Woodward area also is under a flood warning, and all of eastern Oklahoma is under a flash flood watch.
The weather contributed to at least one death today. A Lawton woman died early Wednesday when her car hydroplaned on the H.E. Bailey Turnpike near Walters.
No tornadoes were reported.
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"Our yard has quite a bit of standing water in it, and it has to rain quite a bit for us to get standing water because we're up on a hill," said Mary Becan, a resident of Falconhead Resort which shares a boundary with Burneyville in Love County.
Her husband, John, works at Love Field in Dallas. He stopped in Marrietta on the way home and was told the town of Leon was just about under water.
"They were telling me a whole bunch of farms are under water in Leon, and cars are being washed off roads," John Becan said.
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