Woodward News

The new sirens were made possible from a $350,000 donation from Apache Oil and Gas.

This has overall been a pretty quiet month, especially when compared to our "rough and tumble" April; but we're not out of severe weather season yet.

Thunderstorms unleashed bursts of heat and strong winds on parts of northwestern Oklahoma, damaging homes and businesses, electric power poles and an emergency management command center.

Gusts of up to 80 mph and temperatures in the 90s recorded just after 10:15 p.m. Friday, emergency management director says.

Junior Klima, while mowing his lawn after last month's tornado outbreak, mowed over what he first thought was just a piece of paper.

Sixty-three-year-old Steve "Mickey" Peil died while protecting his wife and her two granddaughters April 15.

Along with being a "cloud watcher," I am also a sunrise watcher. I have been News 9's "sunrise watcher" since June 1st of 1996; that will be 16 years this June! Rarely have a seen a sunrise come out of nowhere to be this beautiful! Skies started cloudy this morning, but there must have been just enough of a break on the eastern horizon this morning ... (more)

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"Right as I set the phone down, that's when I heard it and I knew I was done," said Michael Thorne, survivor of the April 15 Woodward tornado.