Adding to a year of unique weather in Oklahoma, a tornado demolished an Oklahoma State U. office in Tipton, Okla. on Monday.

A satellite experiment station in Tipton, Okla. was destroyed, said Gary Shutt, director of communications at OSU.

“It’s an old homestead, so it’s an old farmhouse and a barn,” Shuttsaid. “We stored equipment in the barn and plant crops. We have land there, so we plant crops and do crop research.”

Shutt said the facility is rarely occupied.

“It’s not a facility where people are at on a regular basis; they just go in to do their research,” he said. “No one was hurt.”

Jeffrey Rector, coordinator of Tillman County’s Office of Emergency Management, verified Monday evening that the tornado caused extensive damage in the region.

“(The tornado) also destroyed three quarters of a dairy, and we had one home that was damaged,” Rector said. “And lots of down powerlines and stuff like that.”

Rector confirmed there were no reported injuries, and the office had 30-45 minutes advance warning to alert the county of the coming storm.

“We alert the people of the cities and county,” Rector said. “We make sure that the sirens sound and we notify the hospitals and care facilities. We have a juvenile correction facility and a (Department of Corrections) center out west of town, so we make sure we warn all of those people.”

Shutt said the university is still evaluating the cost of the damage.

“It’s probably in the hundreds of thousands of dollars,” he said. “It’s not a huge number, but it’s a big number.”