Browns Creek at State Fairgrounds at Nashville, 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 03431300 sits on Browns Creek and reads everything draining 12 square miles of the Lower Cumberland-Sycamore basin. Its datum sits 444 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1964, 45 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is West Fork Browns C at Glendale Lane at Nashville, TN, reading 1.5 square miles. This gauge adds the 10 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Cumberland River at Nashville, TN at 12,856 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 0% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Cumberland River near Bordeaux, TN, Cumberland River at Briley Pkwy at Cockrill Bend and Cumberland River at Ashland City, TN. It then enters Cheatham Reservoir near Ashland City, TN, below which releases set the flow.

Normal flows here

Browns Creek runs a median of 7.1 cfs at this gauge across 45 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 17 cfs, and September the leanest at 3.5 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 3,500 cfs in 2010, and the lowest is 0.3 cfs in 1973.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1964 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

Browns Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 8 feet. NWS starts watching it at 6 feet. The highest crest on record is 13.4 feet, in May 2010.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge NBCT1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.

TVA dams near this gauge

TVA's J Percy Priest Dam is 8 miles from this gauge on the Stones system. Planned generation, lake level and tailwater elevation for it load below when TVA has published them.

• J Percy Priest Dam 8 miles
• Old Hickory Dam 13 miles