South Fork Little River at Hopkinsville, 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 03437500 sits on the South Fork Little River and reads everything draining 46 square miles of the Lower Cumberland basin. Its datum sits 500 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow is on record here from 1950 to 2014, 26 years in all.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Two gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is South Fork Little River at Hwy 68 By-Pass at Hopkinsville,ky, reading 36 square miles. This gauge adds the 11 square miles that drain in between.

Normal flows here

The South Fork Little River runs a median of 17 cfs at this gauge across 26 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 89 cfs, and September the leanest at 1.8 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 3,780 cfs in 1958, and the lowest is 0.2 cfs in 1952.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1950 to 2014. 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.