PHOTOS: Numerous rounds of severe storms cause extensive damage in Canadian, Oklahoma Counties

Conner Carlow, Editor-in-Chief|October 15, 2021

On the morning of Oct. 13, residents were jolted awake to the sound of blaring sirens and phones as a Tornado Warning was issued for Canadian and Oklahoma Counties. The tornado-warned storm produced three separate tornadoes which touched down in Mustang/south west Oklahoma City, central Oklahoma City, and northeastern Oklahoma City. Just two days later, The metro area saw another round of severe weather causing extensive damage in southern Oklahoma City.
According to the Storm Prediction Center, Oklahoma saw 14 tornadoes touch down on Sunday and two on Tuesday, making October the month with more tornadoes than March, April, and May combined.

A truck lays on its side at McCann Court and South West 50th Street, approximately six miles from the high school, in Mustang after an EF-1 Tornado briefly touched down. The storm that produced the tornado served as an early morning alarm for many residents in Yukon and Mustang as tornado sirens and phone Emergency Alert Systems blared at around 5:30 A.M. (Conner Carlow)
A street lamp at the corner of McCann Court and SW 50th ST was ripped out of the ground following the EF-1 tornado that briefly touched down in Canadian County. (Conner Carlow)
: At the corner of Western and South West 24th Street in Oklahoma City, power poles and a stop sign lay on the ground after a second night of severe storms swept through the metro area. (Conner Carlow)
Western Avenue was completely blocked off following power storms on the morning of Oct. 15. On the ground lay destroyed power poles leaving many in the area without power. (Conner Carlow)
Signage for a body shop and bar off of Western Avenue sits in unrecognizable ruins destroyed by powerful winds from severe storms. (Conner Carlow)
Western Avenue was completely impassable as trees and powerlines were snapped and laid across all four lanes of traffic. The building S&S Textiles received heavy structural damage and can be seen being cleaned out by a disaster response company. (Conner Carlow)
A wall of cylinder blocks behind S&S textiles toppled over. (Conner Carlow)
Crews from Oklahoma Gas & Electric (OG&E), BHI Energy, and The City of Oklahoma City worked diligently to clean up parts of trees left in the roadway and rehang powerlines that snapped. (Conner Carlow)
The force of the storm destroyed power poles and the equipment on them leaving a tangled mess on South Western Avenue. (Conner Carlow)