Southern plains rain totals from 3/14 – 3/16

Just for fun, I wanted to take a look at how we did for rainfall estimates across the southern plains yesterday…

The forecast looked like this:

Abilene – 50% || .50″ – .75″
Amarillo – 40% || .10″ – .25″
Dallas – 60% || 1.00″ – 1.25″
Lubbock – 50% || .25″ – .50″

Guymon – 30% || .10″ – .25″
Lawton – 60% || 1.25″ – 1.50″
Oklahoma City – 70% || 2.00″ – 2.25″

Dodge City – 30% || .10″ – .25″
Hays – 30% || .10″ – .25″
Wichita – 50% || .75″ – 1.25″

This morning, I looked into the rain totals for Friday, Saturday and Sunday morning. And here is how it looked:

24hr precipitation estimates // Courtesy: NOAA

Abilene – .61″
Amarillo – .00″
Dallas – 1.29″
Lubbock – .00″

Guymon – .00″
Lawton – .44″
Oklahoma City – .66″

Dodge City – .00″
Hays – .00″
Wichita – .20″

Taking a look at the NOAA 24hr precip estimates from radar data, it looks like the heaviest rain that was anticipated to roll through Lawton and eventually Oklahoma City shifted slightly south and a little east.

Dallas set a record.

Places like Wichita Falls, Texas (1.84″) through Ada, Oklahoma (2.33″) and into Fort Smith, Arkansas (1.71″) received the most rain.



Author of the article:


Nick Lilja

Nick is former television meteorologist with stints in Amarillo and Hattiesburg. During his time in Hattiesburg, he was also an adjunct professor at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is a graduate of both Oregon State and Syracuse University that now calls Houston home. Now that he is retired from TV, he maintains this blog in his spare time.