Valley Creek near Oak Grove 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 02462000 sits on Valley Creek and reads everything draining 148 square miles of the Upper Black Warrior basin. Its datum sits 295 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1954, 54 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Four gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Valley Creek near Bessemer, AL, reading 52 square miles. This gauge adds the 96 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Black Warrior River at Bankhead L&d near Bessemer AL at 3,981 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 4% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Valley Creek runs a median of 164 cfs at this gauge across 54 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 363 cfs, and October the leanest at 104 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 19,100 cfs in 1979, and the lowest is 34 cfs in 1983.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1954 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Dams near this gauge

The Army Corps' Bankhead Dam is 13 miles from this gauge. The Corps publishes no release schedule for this project; its last observed release and elevations load below.

• Bankhead Dam 13 miles
• Holt Dam 23 miles