Reelfoot Creek near Samburg, TN 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 07026500 sits on Reelfoot Creek and reads everything draining 110 square miles of the Obion basin. Its datum sits 287 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1951, 29 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 Reelfoot Lake near Tiptonville, TN at 240 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 46% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Reelfoot Creek runs a median of 9.3 cfs at this gauge across 29 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 59 cfs, and September the leanest at 0.9 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 9,760 cfs in 1966, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 1954.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1951 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.