The Pawnee 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.
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Mostly cloudy; cooler
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29° on Nov. 14, 2018, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1983. Next is 32° in 2019.
Pawnee’s center stands about 370 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 290 ft to 480 ft, a difference of 190 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Fleming Formation and Oakville Sandstone, undivided (sandstone, clay), from the Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old.
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 52×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sandstone, clay. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 17 mi of the line.
Sandstone, clay. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 2 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 Pawnee reaches Corpus Christi Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Sulphur Creek and the Nueces: about 120 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Corpus Christi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Pawnee; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Pawnee has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 97° in August; winter nights fall to about 43° in January. About 26 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Pawnee normally reaches 74° and falls to 52°. The record high is 93°, in 1993; the record low 29°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 1.48 in, fell in 1998.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1983 at Choke Canyon Dam, 19 miles southwest, 140 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
