Caney Fork at Stonewall 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 03424860 sits on the Caney Fork and reads everything draining 2,520 square miles of the Caney basin. Its datum sits 450 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2011, 15 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Center Hill Lake near Smithville, TN sits immediately upstream, so dam releases rather than rainfall set the flow here. One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Center Hill Lake near Smithville, TN, reading 2,174 square miles. This gauge adds the 346 square miles that drain in between.

Normal flows here

The Caney Fork runs a median of 2,425 cfs at this gauge across 15 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 8,020 cfs, and October the leanest at 1,690 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 30,500 cfs in 2020, and the lowest is 272 cfs in 2020.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2011 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

TVA dams near this gauge

TVA's Cordell Hull Dam sits 7 miles from this gauge and its releases set what this gauge reads. Planned generation, lake level and tailwater elevation for it load below when TVA has published them.

• Cordell Hull Dam 7 miles
• Center Hill Dam 7 miles