Blackwell News

On this date in 1955, two tornadoes hammered the town of Blackwell, Oklahoma, in the span of a few minutes.

Trooper Betsy Randolph said the driver of the tractor-trailer rig was trying to ride out the storm.

April's heat in Oklahoma helped propel the January-April period to the warmest on record at 52.3 degres, 5.5 degrees above normal according to the Oklahoma Mesonet.

Thunderstorms moved through central Oklahoma early Monday. Heavy rain and lightning was in central Oklahoma and a flood warning was issued in northern Oklahoma.

A deal between Oklahoma State University and Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. would place a new 60-megawatt wind farm near Blackwell, Okla., near the Oklahoma-Kansas state line.