Wartrace Creek below County Road at Wartrace, TN Flow & Water Level

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 03597590 sits on Wartrace Creek and reads everything draining 36 square miles of the Upper Duck basin. Its datum sits 782 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1990, 37 years of it.

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 Duck River at Shelbyville, TN at 425 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 8% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Duck River near Shelbyville, TN and Duck River at Halls Mill Bridge, TN.

Normal flows here

Wartrace Creek runs a median of 8.4 cfs at this gauge across 37 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 48 cfs, and September the leanest at 1.0 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 4,000 cfs in 1992, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2012.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1990 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

Wartrace Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 14 feet. NWS starts watching it at 9 feet. The highest crest on record is 16.7 feet, in May 2003.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge WRTT1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.

TVA dams near this gauge

TVA's Normandy Dam is 7 miles from this gauge on the Duck system. Planned generation, lake level and tailwater elevation for it load below when TVA has published them.

• Normandy Dam 7 miles
• Tims Ford Dam 23 miles