South Fork Cowikee Creek near Batesville 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 02342933 sits on the South Fork Cowikee Creek and reads everything draining 112 square miles of the Middle Chattahoochee-Walter F basin. Its datum sits 200 feet above sea level NGVD29. Daily flow is on record here from 1964 to 2012, 45 years in all.

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 Chattahoochee River 36 Mi Ds Wfg Dam near Ft Gaines, GA at 7,460 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 2% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

The South Fork Cowikee Creek runs a median of 25 cfs at this gauge across 45 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 128 cfs, and September the leanest at 7.2 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 19,800 cfs in 1990, and the lowest is 0.1 cfs in 2000.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1964 to 2012. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median. USGS stopped publishing a daily flow record at this gauge, so these are historical norms, not a baseline for current readings.