Nolichucky River near Lowland 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 03467609 sits on the Nolichucky River and reads everything draining 1,688 square miles of the Nolichucky basin. Its datum sits 999 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2002, 25 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Nolichucky River below Nolichucky Dam, TN, reading 1,184 square miles. This gauge adds the 504 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Douglas Lake at 4,541 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 37% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

The Nolichucky River runs a median of 1,705 cfs at this gauge across 25 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 2,960 cfs, and October the leanest at 849 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 97,900 cfs in 2024, and the lowest is 212 cfs in 2002.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2002 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

TVA dams near this gauge

TVA's Cherokee Dam is 18 miles from this gauge on the Holston system. Planned generation, lake level and tailwater elevation for it load below when TVA has published them.

• Cherokee Dam 18 miles
• Douglas Dam 23 miles