Mcdowell Creek Tributary at Sr2131 near Hicks Crossroads, NC 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 0214265828 sits on Mcdowell Creek Tributary and reads everything draining 0.9 square miles of the Upper Catawba basin. Its datum sits 663 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2015, 11 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

No gauged site sits above this one on the mainstem, so this is the first published reading on the river. Downstream the next reading comes from Mcdowell Creek near Charlotte, NC Csw10 at 26 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 3% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Catawba River Dnstrm Deck Mountain Is Dam near Mountain Is, NC. It then enters Mountain Island Lake on Catawba River near Mnt Holly, NC, below which releases set the flow.

Normal flows here

Mcdowell Creek Tributary runs a median of 0.2 cfs at this gauge across 11 years of record. January is the fullest month at a median 0.5 cfs, and September the leanest at 0.0 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 81 cfs in 2021, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2022.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2015 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.