Roaring River near Hilham, 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 03418000 sits on the Roaring River and reads everything draining 79 square miles of the Upper Cumberland-Cordell Hull Reservoir basin. Only 52 square miles of that contributes flow in a normal year; the rest is closed basin that does not drain to the river. Its datum sits 777 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1932, 9 years of it.

Normal flows here

The Roaring River runs a median of 44 cfs at this gauge across 9 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 147 cfs, and October the leanest at 12 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 8,000 cfs in 1975, and the lowest is 2.4 cfs in 1954.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1932 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

TVA dams near this gauge

TVA's Dale Hollow Dam is 14 miles from this gauge on the Obey system. Planned generation, lake level and tailwater elevation for it load below when TVA has published them.

• Dale Hollow Dam 14 miles