The Pampa plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
Showers likely
Showers likely
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
Mostly sunny; warmer
Mostly sunny
Mostly sunny
87° on Nov. 15, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1964. Next is 85° in 2014.
Pampa’s center stands about 3,240 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 3,160 ft to 3,260 ft, a difference of 100 ft: gently rolling country.
The section below crosses 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 43×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sand. Age: Late Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 12 million years old. About 14 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 0.3 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR; rock from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation.
A raindrop that lands in Pampa reaches the Gulf of America by way of Red Deer Creek, the Canadian, the Arkansas and the Mississippi: about 1,490 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Murray Lake and Ozark Lake.
600 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Pampa; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Pampa has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 23° in January. A normal year brings about 16 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 23 inches of water.
On November 14 Pampa normally reaches 61° and falls to 33°. The record high is 83°, in 2025; the record low 9°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 0.58 in, fell in 1970.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1964 at Pampa # 2, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
