Comanche County Lifts Burn Ban After Record Rainfall

Comanche County is no longer under a Burn Ban as of Monday, April 6. The Comanche County Board of Commissioners allowed the Burn Ban to expire after a two week extension issued on March 23.

Comanche County first issued the Burn Ban on Feb. 23 and followed with two two-week extensions. After a few days of heavy rain last week, the risk of fire danger has decreased at the Burn Ban was allowed to expire.

Lawton broke a daily rain record on April 3.

Comanche County received multiple rounds of heavy rain on Friday, April 3. Lawton recorded 2.85 inches of rain, breaking a daily record of 1.55 inches set in 1919.

More rain and thunderstorms expected across Oklahoma this week.

According to the National Weather Service in Norman, most of the week will be dry and seasonable through the first of the week. Rain chances and thunderstorms will return the latter part of the week. Severe storm chances are also expected to return Saturday and Sunday.

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Oklahoma could see above average rain chances during the month of April.

The rest of April is expected to be warm and rainy in Oklahoma. Normal temperatures for mid-April is low to mid 70s but there's a 50 to 60 percent chance daytime highs will be warmer.

Oklahoma is also expected to see above average rainfall in mid-April. Normal amounts of rain in mid-April is one inch a week, but there's a 40 to 50 percent chance rainfall amounts will be above normal.