Big Limestone Creek near Limestone, 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 03466208 sits on Big Limestone Creek and reads everything draining 79 square miles of the Nolichucky basin. Its datum sits 1,349 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1996, 29 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 Nolichucky River below Nolichucky Dam, TN at 1,184 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 7% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Big Limestone Creek runs a median of 46 cfs at this gauge across 29 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 110 cfs, and October the leanest at 24 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 3,790 cfs in 2001, and the lowest is 7.3 cfs in 2008.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1996 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

The highest crest on record is 19.7 feet, in September 2024.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge LIMT1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.

TVA dams near this gauge

TVA's Boone Dam is 20 miles from this gauge on the South Fork Holston system. Planned generation, lake level and tailwater elevation for it load below when TVA has published them.

• Boone Dam 20 miles
• Fort Patrick Henry Dam 22 miles