Basses Creek at Lake Tansi near Crossville,tn Flow & Water Level

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 03538970 sits on Basses Creek and reads everything draining 8.1 square miles of the Emory basin. Its datum sits 1,789 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2012, 14 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 Basses Creek below Lake Tansi at US Hwy 127 at 13 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 62% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Daddys Creek near Hebbertsburg, TN and Obed River near Lancing, TN.

Normal flows here

Basses Creek runs a median of 4.6 cfs at this gauge across 14 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 17 cfs, and September the leanest at 1.3 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 430 cfs in 2019, and the lowest is 0.2 cfs in 2024.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2012 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

TVA dams near this gauge

TVA's Watts Bar Dam is 22 miles from this gauge on the Tennessee system. Planned generation, lake level and tailwater elevation for it load below when TVA has published them.

• Watts Bar Dam 22 miles