Reedy Creek below S-40, near Loughman, 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 02266496 sits on Reedy Creek and reads everything draining 174 square miles of the Kissimmee basin. Daily flow has been on record here since 1990, 34 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Reedy Creek near Vineland, FL, reading 85 square miles. This gauge adds the 89 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Reedy Creek near Loughman, FL at 177 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 98% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Reedy Creek at State Hwy 531 near Poinsianna, FL. It then enters Lake Hatchineha near Lake Wales, Fla, below which releases set the flow.

Normal flows here

Reedy Creek runs a median of 15 cfs at this gauge across 34 years of record. September is the fullest month at a median 115 cfs, and May the leanest at 1.7 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 2,620 cfs in 2023, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2014.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1990 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.