{"id":866211,"date":"2026-09-30T19:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T19:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/866211\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T19:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T19:24:09","slug":"amarillo-playa-lake-levels-surge-after-overnight-flooding-mcdonald-lake-overflows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/866211\/","title":{"rendered":"Amarillo playa lake levels surge after overnight flooding, McDonald Lake overflows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) &#8211; Playa lakes around Amarillo are above 50% capacity, with one playa at 100%, after Tuesday\u2019s storms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The City of Amarillo\u2019s playa lakes monitoring page shows the impact of Tuesday\u2019s flooding to the Amarillo area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Before the flooding, McDonald Lake was already at 100%. Overnight, the lake flooded onto Coulter Road at 45th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Amarillo Fire Department urged drivers to stay away from the area as their trucks could not pass through the floodwaters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">T-Anchor Lake is at 83%, up from 55% on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Playa 7 is at 82%, up from 43% on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Bennett Lake and Lawrence Lake sit at 71%. Bennett Lake was at 50% Tuesday, and Lawrence Lake was at 43% Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Willow Grove Lake is at 68%, McCarty Lake is at 65%, and Martin Lake is at 51%. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KFDA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) &#8211; Playa lakes around Amarillo are above 50% capacity, with one playa at 100%, after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":866212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-866211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}