South Elkhorn Creek near Midway, KY 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 03289300 sits on South Elkhorn Creek and reads everything draining 105 square miles of the Lower Kentucky basin. Its datum sits 780 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1982, 44 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is South Elkhorn Creek at Fort Spring, KY, reading 24 square miles. This gauge adds the 81 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Elkhorn Creek near Frankfort, KY at 473 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 22% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

South Elkhorn Creek runs a median of 103 cfs at this gauge across 44 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 194 cfs, and September the leanest at 44 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 10,700 cfs in 1997, and the lowest is 3.1 cfs in 1995.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1982 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

The highest crest on record is 26.4 feet, in March 1997.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge MDWK2. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.