Nolichucky River below Nolichucky Dam, TN 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 03466500 sits on the Nolichucky River and reads everything draining 1,184 square miles of the Nolichucky basin. Its datum sits 1,173 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1903, 54 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Nolichucky River at Embreeville, TN, reading 805 square miles. This gauge adds the 379 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Nolichucky River near Lowland at 1,688 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 70% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

The Nolichucky River runs a median of 1,280 cfs at this gauge across 54 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 2,500 cfs, and September the leanest at 681 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 68,500 cfs in 2024, and the lowest is 20 cfs in 1971.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1903 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.