Big Sunflower River at Clarksdale, MS 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 07288000 sits on the Big Sunflower River and reads everything draining 108 square miles of the Big Sunflower basin. Its datum sits 131 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1937, 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 Big Sunflower River near Merigold, MS at 553 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 20% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

The Big Sunflower River runs a median of 31 cfs at this gauge across 14 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 88 cfs, and September the leanest at 17 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 1,600 cfs in 1942, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2026.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1937 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.