Topashaw Creek Canal near Calhoun City, MS 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 07282100 sits on Topashaw Creek Canal and reads everything draining 101 square miles of the Yalobusha basin. Its datum sits 228 feet above sea level NGVD29. Daily flow is on record here from 1973 to 2011, 37 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 Grenada Lake near Grenada, Miss at 1,320 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 8% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Yalobusha River at Grenada, MS.

Normal flows here

Topashaw Creek Canal runs a median of 21 cfs at this gauge across 37 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 96 cfs, and October the leanest at 3.5 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 18,200 cfs in 1983, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 1988.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1973 to 2011. 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.