Cypress Creek near Sulphur Springs 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 02303800 sits on Cypress Creek and reads everything draining 160 square miles of the Hillsborough basin. Its datum sits essentially at sea level NGVD29. Daily flow has been on record here since 1965, 62 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Two gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Cypress Creek at SR 54 at Worthington Gardens, FL, reading 117 square miles. This gauge adds the 43 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Hillsborough River near Tampa FL at 624 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 26% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Hillsborough River at Fowler Av near Temple Terrace FL, Hillsborough River at I-275 Bridge at Sulphur Springs FL and Hillsborough River at Platt Street at Tampa FL.

Normal flows here

Cypress Creek runs a median of 20 cfs at this gauge across 62 years of record. September is the fullest month at a median 150 cfs, and May the leanest at 0.0 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 2,490 cfs in 2025, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 1992.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1965 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.