Noonday Creek at Shallowford Road, near Woodstock,ga 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 02392975 sits on Noonday Creek and reads everything draining 35 square miles of the Etowah basin. Its datum sits 883 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1998, 28 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Two gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Noonday Creek at Hawkins Store Rd, near Woodstock,ga, reading 26 square miles. This gauge adds the 9.1 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Etowah River Allatoona Dam Tw, above Cartersville,ga at 1,122 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 3% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Etowah River at GA 61, near Cartersville, GA.

Normal flows here

Noonday Creek runs a median of 22 cfs at this gauge across 28 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 41 cfs, and September the leanest at 11 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 5,230 cfs in 2009, and the lowest is 0.7 cfs in 2008.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1998 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

Noonday Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 10 feet. NWS starts watching it at 8 feet. The highest crest on record is 19.7 feet, in September 2009.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge NOOG1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.

Dams near this gauge

The Army Corps' Morgan Falls Dam is 11 miles from this gauge. The Corps publishes no release schedule for this project; its last observed release and elevations load below.

• Morgan Falls Dam 11 miles
• Allatoona Dam 13 miles