Level of the Lake

Lake Texoma

Elevation at the Cumberland Cut gauge

614.44ft

feet above sea level

2.56 ft below full · down 0.52 ft this week

Near normal
updated 10:30 AM CDT

Since midnight

−0.02 ft

level change

Past 30 days

−1.49 ft

level change

Storage

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no storage reading

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Texoma is easing down (−0.52 ft this week). Releases, evaporation and intake are taking out more than the rivers bring in (≈105 cfs). That puts it in the “Near normal” range, 2.44 ft above the “Below normal” line.

Past 30 days

−1.43 ft over this window
614.50615.00615.50616.00Aug 29Sep 13Sep 28
Lake elevation, past 30 days, now 614.54 ft, down 1.43 ft over the window
DateElevation (ft)
Aug 29615.97
Aug 30615.93
Aug 31615.89
Sep 1615.85
Sep 2615.82
Sep 3615.76
Sep 4615.76
Sep 5615.73
Sep 6615.70
Sep 7615.65
Sep 8615.63
Sep 9615.58
Sep 10615.51
Sep 11615.49
Sep 12615.46
Sep 13615.44
Sep 14615.43
Sep 15615.40
Sep 16615.36
Sep 17615.34
Sep 18615.31
Sep 19615.23
Sep 20615.14
Sep 21615.04
Sep 22614.92
Sep 23614.84
Sep 24614.75
Sep 25614.70
Sep 26614.68
Sep 27614.64
Sep 28614.54

Daily mean elevation · USGS 07331455 daily means · provisional

The lake in cross-section

2015 record 645.7Flood pool 640Full pool 6172014 drought 608.10614.44 ft

Rivers into the lake

Rivers & rain →

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101 cfs4.3 cfs101 cfs4.3 cfs77 cfsout the dam nowRed River101 cfsWashita4.3 cfsRed River armRed RiverWashita armWashita RiverTexoma storagein 105 · out 77 cfsnet +28 cfs ≈ +0.01 in/day on the lakeRed River at Denison…USGS gauge below the dam
SteadyReceding · high water draining downOn the rise · climbing right nowInbound wave · big rise upstreamFlooding · NWS, by river heightNo current readingRising or falling is judged from each gauge’s last 48 hours, scaled to its river. Dot speed follows the flow. NWS flood status comes from river height and outranks direction.

Streamflow at the 2 USGS gauges, plus the current flow out through the dam (USGS). Labels are gauge readings in cfs. Line width isn’t to scale. The lake’s net is worked out from these gauges (flow in minus flow out), so it misses ungauged creeks, evaporation and withdrawals.

The rivers, gauge by gauge

105cfs combined

96% of the inflow is coming from the Red River

Gauged rivers only. Runoff below these gauges and ungauged arms aren’t counted. Streamflow: USGS (provisional). Flood status: NOAA/NWS, from river height at each gauge rather than flow.