Paw Creek at Wilkinson Blvd near Charlotte, NC 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 0214295600 sits on Paw Creek and reads everything draining 10 square miles of the Upper Catawba basin. Its datum sits 568 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1995, 32 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 Catawba River below Lake Wylie Dam Fewell Island, SC at 3,020 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 0% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Paw Creek runs a median of 3.3 cfs at this gauge across 32 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 7.0 cfs, and October the leanest at 1.6 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 835 cfs in 1997, and the lowest is 0.1 cfs in 2002.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1995 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

Paw Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 12.5 feet. NWS starts watching it at 11 feet. The highest crest on record is 12.5 feet, in July 2013.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge PAWN7. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.