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06-04-2025 - 5:15 AM - NWS Forecast - Today: Partly sunny, with a high near 77. North wind 7 to 10 mph. Tonight: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 65. East wind 5 to 7 mph.
06-04-2025 - 5:00 AM - Good Morning! It's Wednesday, and the Wichita Falls and Cly County area Amateur (ham) Radio Skywarn® weather spotters were activated last evening due to storms passing through the two counties. Reports indicated wind damage in the western and southern areas of Wichita Falls. Our lakes continue to benefit from the rains. My Folgers Black Silk coffee is ready. I'll need it to wash down the cold pizza I got from from United Market Street. Yummy!
06-03-2025 - Places to get a beer in Wichita Falls in 1977: Astro Lounge, BJ's Lounge, Bar-B-Que Lounge, Big Mary's, Bimbo Club, Carousel Lounge, Dale's Blue Lounge, Downtown Beer Lounge, El Sombrero Bar, Embers Lounge, Esquire Lounge, Frank's Lounge, George's Salt & Pepper, Irene's Bar & Grill, It'll-Do-Bar, Joe's Doll House, La Fiesta Lounge, Latino Ballroom, Lee's Bar, Little Brothers No. II, Lisa's Palace, Lola Wayne Place, Lone Star Saloon, Millie's Lounge, Mister T's Lounge, Nashville Bar, OUI Lounge, Office Lounge, Pokey's Lounge, Pub Lounge, Red Slipper Lounge, Rock Inn, Show & Tell Lounge, Snoopy's Lounge, Some Place Else Lounge, Sonny's Bar, Tank's Bar, Toodles Lounge, The Town Bar, Western Bar, Western Hills Lounge, Wildcatter Club, and the Zoo Bar.
06-03-2025 - 6:00 PM - The Local Group is alive and well on CB Radio Channel 23. Tune in or join in.
06-03-2025 - 5:00 PM - Due to the approaching storms, Wichita Falls area Amateur (ham) Radio Skywarn® weather spotters have been activated. Tune in at 146.940 MHz on your scanner radio. Hear Clay County spotters at 146.800 MHz. UPDATE: The storm passed over the north side of Wichita Falls with little or no damage. Other parts of the city experienced damaging winds. Small hail was reported in several areas as the storm passed.
06-03-2025 - FEMA Daily Operations Briefing - National Current Ops / Monitoring – June 2–3, 2025
New Significant Incidents / Ongoing Ops:
• No new significant incidents / operations
Hazard Monitoring:
• Severe Weather – Southern Plains to Middle Mississippi Valley
• Excessive Rainfall – Southern Plains to Middle Mississippi Valley and south Florida
• Tropical Activity
Atlantic: Disturbance 1: Low (10%)
Eastern Pacific: Disturbance 1: Med (60%)
Disaster Declaration Activity:
• No new declaration activity
Event Monitoring:
• No new significant events
06-03-2025 - 6:30 AM - Our local BNSF Railroad folks are up and running on 160.920 MHz. They stay active on that frequency. Walmart is also alive on 154.570 MHz. There's also some local trucking traffic on CB Radio Channel 19 (27.185 MHz). Tune in to all of it with your scanner radio.
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06-03-2025 - 6:15 AM - According to Water Data for Texas, Wichita Falls reservoirs are: Arrowhead: 97.7% Kemp: 100.0% Kickapoo: 100.0%. Monitored Water Supply Reservoirs are 99.1% full. The City of Wichita Falls uses combined levels of Arrowhead and Kickapoo (98.85%) to determine drought stage.
06-03-2025 - 6:15 AM - ERCOT (Texas) snapshot of grid conditions - ERCOT reports that conditions are normal and there is enough power for current demand with an operating reserve of 8,390 Megawatts.
06-03-2025 - 6:15 AM - NWS Forecast - Today: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 90. South wind 14 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. Tonight: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 10pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 61. South wind 10 to 14 mph becoming north after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
06-03-2025 - 6:00 AM - Good Morning! It's Tuesday and the Clay County Amateur Radio Club (Henrietta, Texas) holds a weekly practice net on Tuesdays at 8:00 PM on the 146.800 MHz repeater. As far as I know, all licensed Amateur (ham) Radio operators are invited to check in. Of course, scanner radio enthusiasts can also tune in. Will the forecasted rain over the next few days bring Lake Arrowhead up to 100%, catching up to Kemp and Kickapoo? Having all three of our supply lakes at 100% would be cool. My Folgers Black Silk coffee is 100% ready!
06-02-2025 - 6:00 PM - The Local Group is active on CB Radio Channel 23 this evening. They usually show up around 5:30 PM. Tune in or join in!
06-02-2025 - I had a pleasant flashback of listening on my scanner radio for the "jump plane" over Grandfield, Oklahoma, to report to Sheppard AFB Air Traffic Control "jumpers away." Later, I was one of the jumpers reported as "away." And later, I was the jump pilot reporting "jumpers away." Check the scanner frequency page for relevant frequencies.
06-02-2025 – In June 1968, I watched Johnny Cash sing "Ring of Fire" on the Sheppard Air Force Base flight line during an "Operation Entertainment" rehearsal. He asked about the German Air Force pilots training at Sheppard, "What do they call them, German Sheppards?"
06-02-2025 - FEMA Daily Operations Briefing - National Current Ops / Monitoring – June 1–2, 2025
New Significant Incidents / Ongoing Ops:
• Space Weather – G4 (Severe) Geomagnetic Storm – FINAL
Hazard Monitoring:
• Severe Thunderstorms – Southern to Northern Plains
• Excessive Rainfall / Flash Flooding – Central Plains and Southeast
• Tropical Activity
Eastern Pacific: Disturbance 1: Med (40%)
Disaster Declaration Activity:
• No new declaration activity
Event Monitoring:
• No new significant events
06-02-2025 - 8:00 AM - According to Water Data for Texas, Wichita Falls reservoirs are: Arrowhead: 97.6% Kemp: 100.0% Kickapoo: 100.0%. Monitored Water Supply Reservoirs are 99.0% full. The City of Wichita Falls uses combined levels of Arrowhead and Kickapoo (98.8%) to determine drought stage.
06-02-2025 - 8:00 AM - ERCOT (Texas) snapshot of grid conditions - ERCOT reports that conditions are normal and there is enough power for current demand with an operating reserve of 11,706 Megawatts.