Carter Creek near Sebring FL 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 02270000 sits on Carter Creek and reads everything draining 39 square miles of the Kissimmee basin. Its datum sits 57 feet above sea level NGVD29. Daily flow has been on record here since 1955, 47 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 Arbuckle Creek near De Soto City, FL at 379 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 10% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Carter Creek runs a median of 17 cfs at this gauge across 47 years of record. September is the fullest month at a median 33 cfs, and May the leanest at 7.3 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 441 cfs in 2017, and the lowest is 0.2 cfs in 2009.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1955 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.