Obed River near Lancing, 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 03539800 sits on the Obed River and reads everything draining 518 square miles of the Emory basin. Its datum sits 892 feet above sea level NGVD29. Daily flow has been on record here since 1957, 53 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Obed River at Adams Bridge near Crossville, TN, reading 92 square miles. This gauge adds the 426 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Emory River at Oakdale, TN at 764 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 68% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

The Obed River runs a median of 373 cfs at this gauge across 53 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 1,310 cfs, and September the leanest at 40 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 45,000 cfs in 1977, and the lowest is 0.5 cfs in 1964.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1957 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

TVA dams near this gauge

TVA's Melton Hill Dam is 25 miles from this gauge on the Clinch system. Planned generation, lake level and tailwater elevation for it load below when TVA has published them.

• Melton Hill Dam 25 miles