Catawba River below Lake Wylie Dam Fewell Island, 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 02145910 sits on the Catawba River and reads everything draining 3,020 square miles of the Lower Catawba basin. Its datum sits 487 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2018, 8 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Catawba River below U.s Highways 29/74 at Belmont, NC sits immediately upstream, so dam releases rather than rainfall set the flow here. Six gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Catawba River below U.s Highways 29/74 at Belmont, NC, reading 2,606 square miles. This gauge adds the 414 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Catawba River near Rock Hill, SC at 3,050 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 99% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Catawba River below Catawba, SC.

Normal flows here

The Catawba River runs a median of 3,015 cfs at this gauge across 8 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 5,420 cfs, and October the leanest at 1,920 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 82,900 cfs in 2024, and the lowest is 739 cfs in 2026.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2018 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.