Tyger River near Woodruff, SC 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 02159500 sits on the Tyger River and reads everything draining 351 square miles of the Tyger basin. Its datum sits 485 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1930, 27 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is South Tyger River below Duncan, SC, reading 94 square miles. This gauge adds the 257 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Tyger River above Whitmire Highway near Whitmire, SC at 696 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 50% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

The Tyger River runs a median of 302 cfs at this gauge across 27 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 503 cfs, and October the leanest at 188 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 18,000 cfs in 1930, and the lowest is 29 cfs in 1955.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1930 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.