Apalachicola R.ab Chipola Cutoff near Wewahitchka,fl Water Level Today

NWS river forecast

Forecast from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service. Issued a few times a day and only while a forecast is active. Not for navigation.

Last 30 days

About this gauge

USGS gauge 02358754 sits on Apalachicola R.ab Chipola Cutoff and reads everything draining 17,800 square miles of the Apalachicola basin. Its datum sits essentially at sea level NGVD29. Daily flow has been on record here since 1956, 43 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

No gauged site sits above this one on the mainstem, so this is the first published reading on the river. Downstream the next reading comes from Apalachicola River near Sumatra,fla at 19,200 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 93% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Apalachicola R.ab Chipola Cutoff runs a median of 16,000 cfs at this gauge across 43 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 26,900 cfs, and October the leanest at 11,200 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 173,000 cfs in 1990, and the lowest is 4,680 cfs in 1982.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1956 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.