From staff and Associated Press reports

DURANT - The unusually warm temperatures are described as odd by a local emergency management official, although major storms missed Bryan County.

Strong thunderstorms packing high winds, heavy rain and hail rumbled through the state late Monday and early today, causing scattered power outages but no major damage or injuries, the Associated Press reported.

Bryan County received sporadic rain beginning at approximately 10 p.m. Monday evening and a storm blew through the area early this morning, according to Durant/Bryan County Emergency Management.

Assistant Emergency Management Director Marlin Blankenship said Bryan County received up to a half-inch of rain and some small claps of thunder.

Temperatures were in the 70s the past couple of days.

“It's very, very odd,” Blankenship said. “We're having a lot warmer than usual temperatures. When you have warm air mix with cold air, that's where you start getting severe thunderstorms.”

According to Blankenship, there is a 30-percent chance for thunderstorms today. Temperatures are dropping but no rain has been forecast.

“It looks like it's going to get a little bit cooler,” Blankenship said. “We don't have any rain forecast through Saturday so it looks like it's going to be dry the rest of the week.”

Temperatures are projected to be in the lower 30s tonight and lows will be in the 30s and 40s for the week. Highs are expected to be in the 50s to 60s.

No damage was reported in Bryan County, while other areas of the state received storm damage.

Some utility poles were blown down in the Tahlequah area, Oklahoma Emergency Management spokeswoman Michelann Ooten said.

Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co. reported just under 500 businesses and homes were blacked out this morning in central Oklahoma and in the Haskell area about 20 miles northwest of Muskogee.

Public Service Company of Oklahoma spokesman Stan Whiteford also said a few hundred customers were without power in the Tulsa and Vinita areas.

A half-inch or more of rain fell in many locations.

There were no tornado reports in the state, but three tornadoes touched down just across the state line in northwestern Arkansas, National Weather Service meteorologist Steve Amburn said.