Levisa Fork below Fishtrap Dam near Millard, 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.

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About this gauge

USGS gauge 03208000 sits on the Levisa Fork and reads everything draining 392 square miles of the Upper Levisa basin. Its datum sits 599 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow is on record here from 1969 to 2000, 26 years in all.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Fishtrap Lake near Milliard, KY sits immediately upstream, so dam releases rather than rainfall set the flow here. One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Levisa Fork at Big Rock, VA, reading 297 square miles. This gauge adds the 95 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Levisa Fork at Pikeville, KY at 1,232 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 32% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Levisa Fork at Prestonsburg, KY.

Normal flows here

The Levisa Fork runs a median of 258 cfs at this gauge across 26 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 589 cfs, and August the leanest at 86 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 8,160 cfs in 1977, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 1977.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1969 to 2000. 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.