The deluge caused the flooding of fields and low-lying streets. The field in front of Western Oklahoma State College became a lake, but no buildings or vehicles were damaged.
Tillman County was under a tornado warning just after noon Thursday and the community of Coyote Hills near Comanche County's Chattanooga suffered some damage from winds that overturned destroyed a hangar and a small plane at the Chattanooga Airport.
The downpour may have contributed to an accident at Market Road and West Broadway that resulted in two injuries.
Altus Police Chief Mike Patterson said a car driven by Morris Bennefield was going south on Market and was turning right onto West Broadway when a car driven by Juan Skeater struck him from behind. Skeater was charged with going too fast for conditions and no driver's license. Bennefield and an occupant in his vehicle, Lenora Bennefield, were transported by ambulance to Jackson County Memorial Hospital.
A power outage caused the traffic signal at North Main and Tamarack to go out.
"People did a good job assuming that it was a four-way stop," Patterson said, adding that drivers were being so orderly that a police officer directing traffic was pulled for duty elsewhere in the city. "I think it makes a statement about the politeness of people in Southwest Oklahoma. You wouldn't see that everywhere."
In Comanche County, funnels were seen after a tornado warning was issued, but there was no confirmation that anything touched down, said Chuck Jones, the county's emergency management director.
''Reports from our weather spotters early on were that the storm was just sitting there,'' Jones said. ''There was no wall cloud, then it just came out of nowhere like it was coming out of starting blocks.''
The storm passed so quickly that emergency operations officials didn't have enough time to warn Chattanooga residents, Jones said.
No serious injuries were reported in the area, he said.
At least four people were hurt when the storms moved northeast toward Cache and Lawton, officials said.
High winds ripped 2,500 square feet of roof off the Trading Post in Cache, officials said. A woman in the store was injured when roofing material hit her in the face.
Nearby, a 15-year-old boy climbed out the wreckage of his mobile home after the storm flipped it onto its side. The teen and his pet dog made it safely to a neighbor's house, officials said.
At Cameron University in Lawton, a 7-year-old girl bumped her head as she and her mother sought shelter there and two students were cut by flying glass, Jones said.
The winds picked up a football stadium concession stand and threw it onto the school's parking lot, scattering debris onto vehicles.
Dina Rogoff said she and others were running for shelter when they saw the damaged windshield of a car.
''People were like looking back, saying, 'Hurry up and get inside!' And then there was this big wall (cloud) coming at us,'' she said.
Cameron President Cindy Ross said more than 50 vehicles were damaged in the storms.
To the north and east, heavy rain drove swollen rivers and creeks over their banks and caused other problems.
More than 3 inches of rain fell in parts of central Oklahoma, flooding a Del City apartment complex and closing streets across the Oklahoma City metropolitan area.
-- The Associated Press contributed to this story
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