Johns Creek near Van Lear, KY 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 03211500 sits on Johns Creek and reads everything draining 206 square miles of the Lower Levisa basin. Its datum sits 597 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow is on record here from 1951 to 1992, 42 years in all.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Dewey Lake near Van Lear, KY sits immediately upstream, so dam releases rather than rainfall set the flow here. One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Johns Creek near Meta, KY, reading 56 square miles. This gauge adds the 150 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Levisa Fork at Paintsville, KY at 2,144 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 10% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Johns Creek runs a median of 92 cfs at this gauge across 42 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 316 cfs, and September the leanest at 15 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 3,870 cfs in 1955, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 1974.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1951 to 1992. 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.