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04-27-2026 - 6:00 AM - Good Morning! It’s Monday, and our local Amateur (ham) Radio Skywarn® storm spotters had an anxious evening yesterday. The storm that began over Wichita Falls and moved northeast produced hail, wall clouds, a funnel near the Wichita Falls Regional Airport, and even a report of a tornado on the ground in the Petrolia area. I’m not sure if any evidence of a tornado was found, as I didn't stay tuned for any after-action reporting. You can monitor future storm spotter activity at 146.940 MHz simplex for Wichita Falls and 146.800 MHz for Clay County. My Folgers Black Silk coffee is ready.
--- 6:05 AM - NWS Forecast - Today: Sunny, with a high near 93. West southwest wind 11 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 62. West southwest wind 6 to 8 mph becoming southeast after midnight.
--- 6:10 AM - NWS Short Range Weather Discussion
--- 6:15 AM - NWS Extended Range Weather Discussion
--- 6:30 AM - According to Water Data for Texas, Wichita Falls reservoirs are: Arrowhead: 85.5% Kemp: 96.0% Kickapoo: 88.3%. Monitored Water Supply Reservoirs are 90.5% full. The City of Wichita Falls uses combined levels of Arrowhead and Kickapoo (86.9%) to determine drought stage.
--- 6:40 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 11,798 Megawatts.
--- 7:05 - I'm starting my "radio" morning with the President McKinley on 40-channel scan, along with the Uniden BC365CRS scanner doing its thing. Of course, I still have Morse code running in the background on the old Yaesu 857D. What's happening in your radio shack? Outside the shack, I have some weed-pulling to do. I'm going to have to do the pre-emergent's job for it!
--- 8:55 AM - FEMA Daily Operations Briefing
--- 9:00 AM - The next time you're in downtown Wichita Falls, Texas, get your binoculars and check out the bullet dents and holes in the flagpole finial atop the venerable First National Building at 8th and Indiana. Retired (old as dirt if they're still alive) cops will tell you that fellow officers used the ball for target practice during boring night shifts back in the "old" days. Shots were indeed fired, but it was hardly target practice on that terrible night! Full Story.
--- 9:30 AM - Some Wichita Falls radio scanning targets: Walmart (154.570 MHz), Allred Unit (153.815 MHz), Wichita County Jail (155.520 MHz), State Hospital (154.800 MHz), city transit buses (453.5375 MHz), WFISD school buses (152.360 MHz), school handheld radios (151.940 MHz), Wichita Valley Airport (122.800 MHz), Kickapoo Airport (122.700 MHz), Wichita Falls Regional Airport / SAFB (119.750 & 122.950 MHz), FAA ATC Fort Worth Center (132.925 MHz), and the BNSF Railroad (160.920 MHz). MORE!
--- 10:00 AM - From the U.S. Federal Trade Commission - New FTC Data Show People Have Lost Billions to Social Media Scams - Social media was the costliest fraud contact method in 2025 and reported losses increased eightfold since 2020 - New data from the Federal Trade Commission show that, in 2025, nearly 30% of people who reported losing money to a scam said that it started on social media,with reported losses reaching a staggering $2.1 billion. Social media scams produced far more in losses—an eightfold increase since 2020—than any other contact method used by scammers to reach consumers, according to the new data. The Data Spotlight notes that social media creates easy access to billions of people from anywhere in the world, making a scammer’s job easier at very little cost. Scammers may hack a user’s account, exploit what a user posts to figure out how to target them, or buy ads and use the same tools used by real businesses to target people by age, interests or shopping habits.
--- 2:00 PM - In the 1980s, someone tried to sell the City of Wichita Falls a surplus Bell UH-1 "Huey" helicopter. A WFPD officer, a helicopter pilot in an earlier life, went up for a test flight. The City wisely turned down the deal. I'm sure the cost to maintain that machine would have outweighed any benefit realized. I have 30 seconds of "stick time" in a Bell Jet Ranger, so I'm an expert!