N Tyger River below Wellford, SC 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 02156999 sits on the N Tyger River and reads everything draining 34 square miles of the Tyger basin. Its datum sits 688 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2007, 10 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Tyger Lake near Wellford, SC sits immediately upstream, so dam releases rather than rainfall set the flow here. Two gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Tyger Lake near Wellford, SC, reading 34 square miles. Downstream the next reading comes from North Tyger River near Fairmont, SC at 44 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 77% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Tyger River near Woodruff, SC.

Normal flows here

The N Tyger River runs a median of 22 cfs at this gauge across 10 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 39 cfs, and September the leanest at 12 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 2,230 cfs in 2024, and the lowest is 0.2 cfs in 2012.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2007 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.