Pacolet River at Us-29 near Converse, SC 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 02155800 sits on the Pacolet River and reads everything draining 314 square miles of the Upper Broad basin. Its datum sits 591 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2022, 4 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Pacolet River below Lake Blalock near Cowpens, SC sits immediately upstream, so dam releases rather than rainfall set the flow here. Three gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Pacolet River below Lake Blalock near Cowpens, SC, reading 273 square miles. This gauge adds the 41 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Pacolet River at Pacolet, SC at 427 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 74% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Pacolet River near Saratt, SC and Broad River below Neal Shoals Res near Carlisle, SC. It then enters Neal Shoals Reservoir near Carlisle, SC, below which releases set the flow.

Normal flows here

The Pacolet River runs a median of 312 cfs at this gauge across 4 years of record. January is the fullest month at a median 446 cfs, and October the leanest at 125 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 16,300 cfs in 2024, and the lowest is 72 cfs in 2023.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2022 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.