SAN ANGELO, Texas — San Angelo received a much-needed respite from its parched conditions as strong thunderstorms rolled through Saturday afternoon, delivering a significant .68 inches of rainfall to the region.
According to emergency communications, the downpour led to temporary power outages and flooding on streets for a few hours due to the heavy rainfall. Several lightning strikes were recorded, resulting in a few transformers being knocked out. However, fortunately, no injuries or property damage were reported to the public.
Despite the rainfall, the precipitation did little to alleviate the area's water scarcity, exacerbated by the ongoing and intensifying drought. The rain soaked the San Angelo fairgrounds, forcing the closure of the carnival for the last Saturday of the 92nd annual Rodeo. However, the Premium Sale proceeded without interruption in the Spur Arena.
The inclement weather has now departed West Central Texas, leaving behind cooler temperatures dominating the forecast for the coming days. The Concho Valley southward is anticipated to remain mostly cloudy to overcast throughout the day, with high temperatures expected to reach the low to mid 60s, contingent on the amount of insolation breaking through the clouds. Overnight, low-level winds are projected to shift more southerly, aiding in the dissipation of cloud cover, with lows dropping into the low to mid 40s across the region.
Looking ahead to the long term forecast, a warming trend is forecasted for the early part of the workweek. Highs on Monday are expected to be pleasant in the lower to mid 70s after a cool start to the day. Tuesday will see highs soaring to 82-87 degrees across the area following morning lows of 50-55 degrees. South winds will develop on Monday and intensify through Tuesday, becoming breezy.
This weather pattern is expected to persist through the week, with mostly sunny conditions prevailing, alongside breezy south winds. By Friday, temperatures are forecasted to climb as high as 91 degrees, signaling a return to warmer weather for the region.
Despite the temporary relief provided by Saturday's rainfall, ongoing concerns persist regarding the region's water resources amidst the continuing drought conditions. Residents are urged to remain vigilant and conserve water wherever possible as the area navigates through this challenging weather pattern.
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SAN ANGELO, Texas – The forecasted and much anticipated heavy rain and flooding event for Saturday has diminished greatly and most of the Concho Valley will only see scattered thunderstorms with light rain Saturday afternoon….
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PermalinkThank God for the rain.
West Texas needs a Hurricane/tropical depression to hit Mexico/Texas gulf to gain any substantial run off for our reservoirs.
Its happened before and needs to happen sooner than later.
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PermalinkI remember the days after the completion of the North Concho Dam and how quickly the lake filled after bodacious storms dumped tubloads of water on the watershed. The lake filled, and folks built boat storage and fishing piers there. Even as the lake levels fell, I water skied along the dam since the dam created smooth water perfect for cutting the boat's wake on a slalom. Although I longer live there, I would really like for days like that to return for the enjoyment of the good folks in San Angelo.
As an aside, I have also cut a boat's wake on the equalization channel between the two pools at Twin Buttes Lake. I would like for that ability to come to pass as well.
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Permalinkbut the natural dam has a lot of leaks and our shitty government won't pay to fix it. It's safe to say OC fisher will stay dry and twin buttes will never see anything past 70% ever again.
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Permalink1. How can a dam be natural if it was constructed?
2. You say will Twin Buttes never reach 70% again? Really? A mere 4.5 years ago, October 2019, it contained 145,000 acre feet of water. Twin Buttes at conservation capacity contains 185,000 acre feet. 145,000 acre feet contents would put the reservoir at 78.4%.
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Permalink5 years AGO... twin buttes is currently at less than 14% maybe a google search would do you some good...you should also re identify as a 22 lr since you did no damage
As for the natural part... you must be dense because man didn't create the rock, dirt or aggregate soil we used to make that leaky ass dam
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Permalinkhere i did it for you
https://waterdatafortexas.org/reservoirs/individual/twin-buttes
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PermalinkUncle Joe you have no idea what you’re talking about. Why don’t you try clicking the “historical” tab right next to the “current” tab you reference on Texas Water Development Board water data for Texas website. You will see that Twin Buttes has contained over 140,000 acre feet of water on four separate occasions since 1975.
as for the .22 statement? I seldom use rimfire projectiles.
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PermalinkUncle Joe you have no idea what you’re talking about. Why don’t you try clicking the “historical” tab right next to the “current” tab you reference on Texas Water Development Board water data for Texas website. You will see that Twin Buttes has contained over 140,000 acre feet of water on four separate occasions since 1975.
as for the .22 statement? I seldom use rimfire projectiles. Have a great day.
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Permalinkwhy would I do that... it gave me historical and that 76% quickly disappeared(literally 2 years). If we dont get major rain this year we'll be in heavy drought stage AGAIN. Next time don't be so quick to job your magazine in the receiver and pray and spray.
There's a reason tgc is recycling shit water with chlorine and a plethora of other chemicals at the shit water plant and it isn't because we like the taste of toilet water. It's because they KNOW this to be true , we can't keep water in that leaky fucking lake dam.
We even had some of our best rains those two years (20 and 21) compared to 22,23,and present, and lake levels continued to recede.
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PermalinkSomewhat correct.
OC Fisher was completed in January 1951as a flood control lake. The US Army Corps of Engineers designed the dam and outlet works after the 1936 flood that inundated downtown San Angelo. WW II kind of got in the way and construction was postponed until after the war.
The lake reached its maximum volume to date in 1958. Since OC Fisher was built for flood control, the lake released a significant volume of water during that time to prepare for the next flood event (which has never really happened.)
No one ever built boat docks or fishing piers on the lake as the land which surrounds the water body is owned solely by USACE. San Angelo State Park and ASU lease portions of the land adjacent to the water.
If you skied along the dam in calm water then it was a day without wind or an easterly wind. Dominant SW winds make for the roughest water on the lake along the dam.
At conservation capacity (full), OC Fisher contains 120,000 acre feet at elevation 1908. Since the lake was built for flood control, it can hold an additional 30 vertical feet of volume before breaching the emergency spillway. At that elevation (1938.5) OC Fisher would contain 396,400 acre feet..three times its conservation pool volume.
Ironically, Rivercrest hospital is directly downstream and of a lower elevation than the emergency spillway at OC Fisher.
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PermalinkThe stuff I "remember" being at North Concho Lake, as it was known in those days, may have been distorted by the fact it was seven decades ago I "remember" seeing the boat storage and fishing piers I mentioned. Please note I am not about to call you a liar or ill-informed. I just know I have an image in my alleged mind that admittedly goes back to when I was but a wee tyke.
A further comment on my cutting wakes in the equalization channel at Twin Buttes: The water was so shallow a skier could not fall or drop in the channel, have the boat come back, and pull the skier out. A boat not planed out could not make it in the channel, so a boat making a skier retrieval had to put his silly ass in the boat and slowly mosey out of the channel with the prop pitched for shallow water.
Finally, I recall the days when one could walk across Lake Nasworthy because the only water was in the river channel.
Dang, but I sound old, don't I?
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PermalinkI remember when the rains were as plentiful as the buffalo, and the men of the surface gave their blood freely to be fed upon. Those were different times, but is the present truly "better"?...
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PermalinkOC Fisher AKA North Lake was never drained to get ready for the next flood. Back in late 60s/ early seventies, the north concho river had heavy flooding and pecan tree log debris got lodged in the dam water gates and would not close, the corp continuously dropped gate on logs underneath and never could get debris dislodged and the lake drained it self dry.
I remember my brother and his buddies took me down to the dry lake bed at the gates and we dug up a trunk load of live catfish.
Yes we got that 65 yellow impala convertible stuck in mud because we drive to close to the cages on a so called dry lake bed.
The next summer the lake caught on fire and made national news and Ripleys for the only lake to catch fire.
Paul Harvey even mentioned on his daily radio show.
My mom and dad also water skied on north lake back in da 60s when it had 2 floating ski jumps. Oh the family memories we made at that lake.
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PermalinkI had forgotten about the ski jumps. I was a slalom (wake cutter) dude, so I never did the jumps.
As you said, "Oh, the memories..."
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PermalinkI have fond recollections of riding my stegosaur for hundreds of miles throughout this area. This was before that tyrant of the warm bloods, Esai, from the now sunken continent east of here cursed my clan and drove our people underground.
Before they came with their meticulously cultivated firestones, incinerating all opposition with their rays of lethal light, people were far simpler and more pliant. Our houses were full of warm blooded servants whose openness to psychic suggestion meant that the drudgery of daily tasks was lifted from our scaly backs and life was full of sport and adventure.
While their kind still serve, it's sad that the type who have sprung up as late are so stubborn and require constant psychological suggestion, well crafted customs and a maze of trickery just to get good help and potent, healthy biomass from them.
It's impossible to just swim in the local lakes now without being cast as some type of "monster."
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PermalinkDont know much about that but I do remember the goatman was out there somewhere😂😂😂
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