Combahee River near Yemassee, 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 02176000 sits on the Combahee River and reads everything draining 1,100 square miles of the Broad-St. Helena basin. Its datum sits 4 feet below sea level NAVD88. Daily flow is on record here from 1951 to 1957, 6 years in all.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Salkehatchie River near Miley, SC, reading 341 square miles. This gauge adds the 759 square miles that drain in between.

Normal flows here

The Combahee River runs a median of 290 cfs at this gauge across 6 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 830 cfs, and September the leanest at 102 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 5,070 cfs in 1955, and the lowest is 9.0 cfs in 1954.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1951 to 1957. 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.