Bradley Creek near Prairie Plains, 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 03578500 sits on Bradley Creek and reads everything draining 41 square miles of the Upper Elk basin. Its datum sits 968 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1952, 31 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 Woods Reservoir at 263 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 16% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Bradley Creek runs a median of 30 cfs at this gauge across 31 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 81 cfs, and October the leanest at 6.9 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 3,270 cfs in 2019, and the lowest is 0.3 cfs in 2007.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1952 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 14.5 feet, in March 1973.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge PPLT1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.

TVA dams near this gauge

TVA's Normandy Dam is 17 miles from this gauge on the Duck system. Planned generation, lake level and tailwater elevation for it load below when TVA has published them.

• Normandy Dam 17 miles
• Tims Ford Dam 20 miles