Duck River below Manchester, 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 03596000 sits on the Duck River and reads everything draining 107 square miles of the Upper Duck basin. Its datum sits 878 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1934, 78 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Duck River above Shay Lake near Manchester, TN, reading 20 square miles. This gauge adds the 87 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Normandy Lake at 195 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 55% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Duck River at Shelbyville, TN and Duck River near Shelbyville, TN.

Normal flows here

The Duck River runs a median of 63 cfs at this gauge across 78 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 210 cfs, and September the leanest at 28 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 17,800 cfs in 1970, and the lowest is 9.1 cfs in 1954.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1934 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

The highest crest on record is 20.9 feet, in May 1973.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge MCST1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.

TVA dams near this gauge

TVA's Normandy Dam is 7 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 7 miles
• Tims Ford Dam 21 miles