Black Warrior River at Holt L&d near Holt 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 02462951 sits on the Black Warrior River and reads everything draining 4,219 square miles of the Upper Black Warrior basin. Its datum sits essentially at sea level NGVD29. Daily flow is on record here from 1977 to 2014, 37 years in all.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Black Warrior River at Bankhead L&d near Bessemer AL, reading 3,981 square miles. This gauge adds the 238 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Black Warrior River at Northport AL at 4,820 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 88% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Black Warrior River below Oliver L&d near Tuscaloosa, AL.

Normal flows here

The Black Warrior River runs a median of 2,935 cfs at this gauge across 37 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 9,530 cfs, and October the leanest at 685 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 178,000 cfs in 1979, and the lowest is -30.3 cfs in 2010.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1977 to 2014. 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.

Dams near this gauge

The Army Corps' Holt Dam is 1 mile from this gauge. The Corps publishes no release schedule for this project; its last observed release and elevations load below.

• Holt Dam 1 mile
• Bankhead Dam 15 miles