table style="width: 500px;" border="0">             Several hours of heavy rain flooded some areas of Henryetta and the area Friday night.
The series of storms struck around 7 p.m. with tornado sirens wailing throughout the town sending people to shelters.
For a time, the south side of town was cut off when Coal Creek and some tributaries went out of their banks.
Video of the storms moving into Henryetta Friday night. One person had to be rescued from her car after it was swept off the road on Barclay. Firemen used ropes to secure themselves against the force of the water coming down the creek. The driver was not injured and was taken to the Red Cross emergency center.
Flood waters on East Main surrounded several businesses but none received any damage. Several large metal storage containers at Wal mart had to be towed from Coal Creek by fire department trucks.
By Saturday morning, the waters were still high but roads and streets were clear.
Frisco Avenue was cut off and remained closed Saturday morning with over a foot of water under the railroad overpass.
Some motorists were stranded keeping wrecker drivers busy rescuing them and their vehicles. Over two inches of rain fell within a four hour period.
The Red Cross set up an emergency shelter at the Henryetta Civic Center with around 15 people spending the night when they could not get to their homes due to flooded roads.
The heavy rain Friday came on the heels of a nearly week-long series of storms that have soaked the area. Henryetta was fortunate with only wind and rain. Other parts of the state reported hail and strong winds that damaged businesses.
In the central part of Oklahoma, around 9,000 people were without electricity. No power outages were reported in Henryetta or Okmulgee County.
For a time both SH 56 and US 62 were closed in Okfuskee County due to flood waters.
"There were two storm systems that were converging on Henryetta so we sounded the storm sirens," said fire chief David Bullard. "We had spotters who reported some lowering clouds that could have formed tornadoes near Clearview but nothing came of that."