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06-16-2025 - FEMA Daily Operations Briefing - National Current Ops / Monitoring for June 15 – 16, 2025
New Significant Incidents / Ongoing Ops:
• No new significant incidents / operations
Hazard Monitoring:
• Severe Weather – Central Plains and Upper Midwest
• Heavy Rain / Flash Flooding – Middle Mississippi to the Ohio Valley and Central Appalachians to the Mid-Atlantic
• Critical Fire Weather – Central Great Basin
• Tropical Activity
Eastern Pacific:
• Disturbance 1: High (90%)
Disaster Declaration Activity:
• No new declaration activity
Event Monitoring:
• No new significant events
06-16-2025 - 6:45 AM - According to Water Data for Texas, Wichita Falls reservoirs are: Arrowhead: 100% Kemp: 100% Kickapoo: 100%. Monitored Water Supply Reservoirs are 100% full. The City of Wichita Falls uses combined levels of Arrowhead and Kickapoo (100%) to determine drought stage.
06-16-2025 - 6:45 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 8,088 Megawatts.
06-16-2025 - 6:45 AM - NWS Forecast - Today: Sunny, with a high near 93. Heat index values as high as 100. Calm wind becoming south southeast 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon. Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 77. Southeast wind around 10 mph.
06-16-2025 - 6:30 AM - Good Morning! It's Monday, and the Texas Rangers swept the Chicago White Sox. In the last game, the White Sox Manager and the Home Plate Umpire had a "conversation" for the ages. Epic. My Folgers Black Silk coffee is ready.
06-15-2025 - 7:57 PM - I contacted a station in Crooked River State Park (US-2170) in Georgia on 20 meters (14 MHz) CW (Morse code) in the Amateur (ham) Radio Parks on the Air® program. POTA hunter count: 537.
06-15-2025 - The CB Radio band is on fire again today. There has been a lot of traffic on our local BNSF Railroad frequencies over the last few days. Area Amateur (ham) Radio operators have been active on 146.520 and 146.940 MHz. The I-44 Walmart got my attention on 154.570 MHz this morning. I'll leave it at that. It's a good time to have a scanner radio!
06-15-2025 - The Wichita Amateur Radio Society holds a weekly informal net on Sundays at 8:00 PM on the club's 147.140 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.
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06-15-2025 - 8:00 AM - The Wichita Falls area Amateur (ham) Radio Skywarn® weather spotters are being activated due to the storms descending from the northwest. High winds are the primary concern. Tune in at 146.940 MHz on your scanner radio. Clay County: 146.800 MHz.
FEMA Daily Operations Briefing - National Current Ops / Monitoring – June 14-15, 2025
New Significant Incidents / Ongoing Ops:
• No new significant incidents / operations
Hazard Monitoring:
• Severe Thunderstorms – Northern to Central Plains
• Heavy Rain/Flash Flooding – Upper to Lower Mississippi Valley and Ohio Valley to Mid-Atlantic
• Tropical Activity
Eastern Pacific:
• Tropical Storm Dalila
• Disturbance 1: Medium (60%)
Disaster Declaration Activity:
• No new declaration activity
Event Monitoring:
• No new significant events
06-15-2025 - 6:30 AM - According to Water Data for Texas, Wichita Falls reservoirs are: Arrowhead: 99.8% Kemp: 100% Kickapoo: 100%. Monitored Water Supply Reservoirs are 99.9% full. The City of Wichita Falls uses combined levels of Arrowhead and Kickapoo (99.9%) to determine drought stage.
06-15-2025 - 6:30 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 11,681 Megawatts.
06-15-205 - 6:30 AM - NWS Forecast - Today: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 4pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 91. Heat index values as high as 98. Southeast wind 7 to 9 mph becoming north northwest in the afternoon. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. Tonight: A 10 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 7pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 73. Southeast wind 7 to 9 mph.
06-15-2025 - 6:15 AM - Good Morning! It's Sunday. For you Ham Radio people, it's Simplex Sunday, a day to give those repeaters a rest and use simplex instead. My Folgers Black Silk coffee is ready.
06-14-2025 - In 1969 or so, while still in high school, I attended a lecture by rocket scientist Wernher von Braun at what was then Midwestern University here in Wichita Falls. It didn't become Midwestern State University until 1975. I don't remember much about his talk, but I do remember him saying that he didn't know if Texas was a state or a state of mind. At a young age, I didn't know what to think about that. Now, in my old age, I still don't.