Tinker Creek above Glade Creek at Roanoke, VA 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 0205551614 sits on Tinker Creek and reads everything draining 78 square miles of the Upper Roanoke basin. Its datum sits 887 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2019, 7 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Tinker Creek near Daleville, VA, reading 12 square miles. This gauge adds the 66 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Roanoke River at Niagara, VA at 509 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 15% of the water measured there. It then enters Smith Mountain Lake at Dam near Penhook, VA, below which releases set the flow.

Normal flows here

Tinker Creek runs a median of 50 cfs at this gauge across 7 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 83 cfs, and November the leanest at 37 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 4,470 cfs in 2020, and the lowest is 20 cfs in 2026.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2019 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.