Buck Creek near Longs, 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.

Last 30 days

About this gauge

USGS gauge 02110400 sits on Buck Creek and reads everything draining 47 square miles of the Waccamaw basin. Its datum sits 5 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow is on record here from 2006 to 2019, 12 years in all.

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 Waccamaw River near Longs, SC at 1,110 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 4% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Waccamaw River at Sc-22 below Longs, SC and Waccamaw River at Conway Marina at Conway, SC.

Normal flows here

Buck Creek runs a median of 11 cfs at this gauge across 12 years of record. January is the fullest month at a median 28 cfs, and August the leanest at 5.9 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 2,930 cfs in 2018, and the lowest is -137.0 cfs in 2018.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2006 to 2019. 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.

Flood stages and record crests

The highest crest on record is 19.8 feet, in September 2018.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge BCLS1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.