Broad River below Neal Shoals Res near Carlisle, SC 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.

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About this gauge

USGS gauge 021564493 sits on the Broad River and reads everything draining 2,740 square miles of the Lower Broad basin. Its datum sits 1 feet below sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2012, 14 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Neal Shoals Reservoir near Carlisle, SC sits immediately upstream, so dam releases rather than rainfall set the flow here. Four gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Neal Shoals Reservoir near Carlisle, SC, reading 2,730 square miles. Downstream the next reading comes from Broad River near Carlisle, SC at 2,780 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 99% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Broad River near Jenkinsville, SC and Broad River at Alston, SC.

Normal flows here

The Broad River runs a median of 2,265 cfs at this gauge across 14 years of record. January is the fullest month at a median 3,580 cfs, and September the leanest at 1,360 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 97,800 cfs in 2024, and the lowest is 326 cfs in 2015.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2012 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.