Pee Dee River at Hwy731 below Lake Tillery near Norwood, 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 0212378405 sits on the Pee Dee River and reads everything draining 4,694 square miles of the Upper Pee Dee basin. Its datum sits 198 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2014, 13 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Lake Tillery on Pee Dee River near Norwood, NC sits immediately upstream, so dam releases rather than rainfall set the flow here. Two gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Lake Tillery on Pee Dee River near Norwood, NC, reading 4,640 square miles. Downstream the next reading comes from Pee Dee River at Pee Dee Refuge near Ansonville, NC at 6,134 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 77% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Pee Dee River below Powerhouse Dam near Pee Dee, NC, Pee Dee River near Rockingham, NC and Pee Dee River above Jones Creek near Cordova, NC. It then enters Blewett Falls Lake on Pee Dee River near Pee Dee, NC, below which releases set the flow.

Normal flows here

The Pee Dee River runs a median of 4,280 cfs at this gauge across 13 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 7,460 cfs, and October the leanest at 2,670 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 90,900 cfs in 2021, and the lowest is 84 cfs in 2015.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2014 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

The highest crest on record is 21.1 feet, in September 2018.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge PDTN7. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.