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The National Weather Service said in the warnings that between one and two inches of rain had already fallen early Monday afternoon. Flash flood warnings issued for areas around Texas Panhandle ...
Sweetwater Creek is a stream in the Texas Panhandle and western Oklahoma.It is a tributary to the North Fork of the Red River. [1]The stream headwaters arise in northern Gray County, Texas at northeast of Laketon and southeast of Miami at an elevation of 3010 feet
The Northern Plains' climate is semi-arid and is prone to drought, annually receiving between 16 and 32 inches (410 and 810 mm) of precipitation, and average annual snowfall ranging between 15 and 30 inches (380 and 760 mm), with the greatest snowfall amounts occurring in the Texas panhandle and areas near the border with New Mexico.
Abnormally warm temperatures, dry grasses, and a sudden windy cold front combined to create the conditions for the destructive wildfires that have raged across parts of Texas this week.
Texas has been the leading state in petroleum production since discovery of the Spindletop oil field in 1901. [11] As of October 2017, the State of Texas (if treated as its own nation) is the 7th largest oil producing nation in the world, with production totaling approximately 3.78 million barrels (600 thousand cubic meters ) per day of oil ...
The lake is essentially dry most of the time, because of declining water table levels [5] and periodic droughts that have affected the panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas. [b] As a result, the lake project (completed in 1978), was largely abandoned in 2010 when picnic tables and other structures were demolished for safety reasons. Public use areas ...
A common track of a Panhandle Hook winter storm as it curves from Texas, northeastward towards the Great Lakes region. A panhandle hook (also called a pan handle hook [1] or Texas hooker [2]) is a relatively infrequent winter storm system whose cyclogenesis occurs in the South to southwestern United States from the late fall through winter and into the early spring months.
The geography of Texas is diverse and large. Occupying about 7% of the total water and land area of the U.S., [1] it is the second largest state after Alaska, and is the southernmost part of the Great Plains, which end in the south against the folded Sierra Madre Oriental of Mexico.