Shades Creek near Greenwood AL 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.

Last 30 days

About this gauge

USGS gauge 02423630 sits on Shades Creek and reads everything draining 72 square miles of the Cahaba basin. Its datum sits 479 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1965, 44 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Two gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Shades Creek near Homewood, Ala, reading 27 square miles. This gauge adds the 45 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Cahaba River near West Blocton AL at 593 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 12% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Cahaba River at Centreville AL.

Normal flows here

Shades Creek runs a median of 41 cfs at this gauge across 44 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 141 cfs, and October the leanest at 18 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 8,510 cfs in 1979, and the lowest is 0.4 cfs in 2001.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1965 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

Shades Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 10 feet. The highest crest on record is 15.9 feet, in April 2014.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge GWDA1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.