Nolin River at Kyrock, KY 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 03311000 sits on the Nolin River and reads everything draining 703 square miles of the Upper Green basin. Only 480 square miles of that contributes flow in a normal year; the rest is closed basin that does not drain to the river. Its datum sits 400 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow is on record here from 1964 to 2004, 41 years in all.

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 Green River at Hwy 259 at Brownsville, KY at 2,762 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 25% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Green River at Lock 4 at Woodbury, KY.

Normal flows here

The Nolin River runs a median of 478 cfs at this gauge across 41 years of record. November is the fullest month at a median 1,220 cfs, and April the leanest at 102 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 10,300 cfs in 1983, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 1966.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1964 to 2004. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median. USGS stopped publishing a daily flow record at this gauge, so these are historical norms, not a baseline for current readings.