Duck River at Shelbyville, TN 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 03597860 sits on the Duck River and reads everything draining 425 square miles of the Upper Duck basin. Its datum sits 690 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1992, 26 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Two gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Normandy Lake, reading 195 square miles. This gauge adds the 230 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Duck River near Shelbyville, TN at 481 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 88% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Duck River at Halls Mill Bridge, TN and Duck River above Milltown, TN.

Normal flows here

The Duck River runs a median of 226 cfs at this gauge across 26 years of record. November is the fullest month at a median 366 cfs, and September the leanest at 180 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 820 cfs in 2004, and the lowest is 101 cfs in 2008.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1992 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

TVA dams near this gauge

TVA's Normandy Dam is 12 miles from this gauge on the Duck system. Planned generation, lake level and tailwater elevation for it load below when TVA has published them.

• Normandy Dam 12 miles
• Tims Ford Dam 22 miles