Outlet River at Panacoochee Retreats, FL 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.

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About this gauge

USGS gauge 02312700 sits on the Outlet River and reads everything draining 420 square miles of the Withlacoochee basin. Its datum sits 1 feet below sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1963, 61 years of it.

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 Withlacoochee River at Wysong Dam, at Carlson, FL at 1,520 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 28% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Withlacoochee River near Inverness, FL, Withlacoochee River at SR 200 near Holder, FL and Withlacoochee River at US 41 at Dunnellon, FL.

Normal flows here

The Outlet River runs a median of 138 cfs at this gauge across 61 years of record. September is the fullest month at a median 183 cfs, and June the leanest at 103 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 820 cfs in 1998, and the lowest is -98.1 cfs in 2025.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1963 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.