Murder Creek near Evergreen AL 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 02374500 sits on Murder Creek and reads everything draining 176 square miles of the Lower Conecuh basin. Its datum sits 178 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1938, 89 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 Murder Creek at State Hwy 41 at Brewton, AL at 435 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 40% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Murder Creek runs a median of 174 cfs at this gauge across 89 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 318 cfs, and October the leanest at 119 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 12,200 cfs in 1938, and the lowest is 33 cfs in 2000.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1938 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 26.6 feet, in March 1929.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge EVMA1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.