Bear Creek near Hackleburg AL 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 03591800 sits on Bear Creek and reads everything draining 143 square miles of the Bear basin. Its datum sits 647 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow is on record here from 1957 to 1981, 24 years in all.

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 Bear Creek at Redbay, AL at 263 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 54% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Bear Creek runs a median of 102 cfs at this gauge across 24 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 341 cfs, and August the leanest at 27 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 20,800 cfs in 1973, and the lowest is 5.8 cfs in 1981.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1957 to 1981. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median. USGS stopped publishing a daily flow record at this gauge, so these are historical norms, not a baseline for current readings.

TVA dams near this gauge

TVA's Upper Bear Creek Dam is 5 miles from this gauge on the Bear Creek system. Planned generation, lake level and tailwater elevation for it load below when TVA has published them.

• Upper Bear Creek Dam 5 miles
• Bear Creek Dam 15 miles
• Little Bear Creek Dam 16 miles
• Cedar Creek Dam 21 miles