this is gonna help fork!

If they let it..

I was sure hoping it would hang out down there. Skeeter owners tournament just around the corner.

Meaning?

Not sure how accurate the gauge at the Mineola airport is, but they're only showing .36" of rain in the last 24 hours (as of 1:50 today). Sure seems like more than that fell though.

Fork needs to stay low for a while.

It takes a lot of rain to raise Fork, more than we've had with this storm.
I'd really rather it stayed low through the summer and maybe through the fall.

I live up @ Cooper and all the creeks are out of their banks here. Hopefully the tributaries to Fork are the same.

Looks like it came up 0.14 feet or 1.7 inches

If repairs on the dam are done and gates all closed.

Radar indicated totals only show .5 - .95 inches of rain over the last 72 hours in and around the Fork area. By contrast, Tawakoni area saw a good 1.85 - 2.13" and Cedar Creek averaged about 3.5" with some areas of the lake seeing 4"+.

I have to admit, something is starting to seem odd about Fork staying low. We get rain nearby or at Fork and the lake doesn’t come up any. Doesn’t make sense.

It’s the homeowners stealing the water for their yards.

2 years to come back,...you heard it here first. check the history.

If the watersheds not catching water then the amount that falls directly on the lake will not do much. Tbe lake I live on has a watershed fairly far north of here. We can get soaked here and lake will not rise unless it hits the watershed itself.

I bet the middle of the lake has to fill up first......

This^^^^^^^^

I don't think most understand how poor the watershed is for Fork. Heck, I've seen guys argue on here about the Sabine being a feeder for Fork.

Yep used to work with a guy that argued with me all the time that the Sabine River runs thru Fork. He never could show me on a map. He said why do they call it the Sabine River Authority. .S M D H

The gates have been closed since mid January. So much misinformation floating around it's sickening.

Same here for Cooper, we have to get heavy rain in northern Hunt County and southern Fanin County for Cooper to be effected at all but when it gets a good rain it can come up as much as 4 feet.. From what I've seen out of Fork the last few decades it's upper basin must not be all that big. It may take better than a year for it to get full again.

ABSOLUTELY!!! Just go around the lake now, there is so much vegetation growing right now its crazy. I hope it stays this way at least a year!!

YESSS! I love fishing freshly flooded vegetation. I got to do that a lot in the spring time at home in the bayou state.

This is exactly right, a couple years at this level then fill it back up.

There's no run off rains because it's dry....it takes days of rain to make a significant rise....a storm system blowing through in hours will not materially affect the water level

I hope it gets 8' low by September and doesn't fill up until 2024 personally

take it down to 12'

We’re going to drop three more feet starting June first. No rain and the sun will suck it’s yearly three foot out.

Outside of a tropical event, it will be double digits low in the fall I believe. Our July August high pressure dome is already here. It's gonna be a dry one.

Not sure if this is true, but heard they lowered the lake to repair the dam. Then once they fixed their repairs, they found other issues they wanted to fix, so it's still low. But it's staying low because they want it low, not because of rainfall.

But I agree with the people who want it low for a few years. Love to get a new lake effect and more shoreline cover.

It's dry folks. Simply hasn't been enough rain to fill her back up. Most lakes east of I-35 are 1-3ft low. The ones west of I-35 are even lower. Fork is just 6ft behind because of the dam repair. In order for most Texas lakes to fill you have to get the soil profile full, then the ponds upstream full, then the creeks running, then the lakes start coming up. All that usually happens in fall and winter, then the Spring rains finish off the filling. Just hasn't happened this year. Most Texas lakes aren't on a huge river systems that can just fill a lake at will. They have a huge watershed of small creeks and a smaller river. We have been fortunate for many years not having a substantial drought. Looks like we are gonna get one now. Not sure why this simple process seems to perplex so many people.

10 4.

a good Hurricane will help