Reedy Creek 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 02266500 sits on Reedy Creek and reads everything draining 177 square miles of the Kissimmee basin. Its datum sits 64 feet above sea level NGVD29. Daily flow has been on record here since 1940, 74 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Two gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Reedy Creek at S-40, near Loughman, FL, reading 174 square miles. Downstream the next reading comes from Reedy Creek at State Hwy 531 near Poinsianna, FL at 234 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 76% of the water measured there. It then enters Lake Hatchineha near Lake Wales, Fla, below which releases set the flow.

Normal flows here

Reedy Creek runs a median of 33 cfs at this gauge across 74 years of record. September is the fullest month at a median 112 cfs, and May the leanest at 5.5 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 2,640 cfs in 2023, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2002.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1940 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.