Withlacoochee River near Floral City, FL 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.

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About this gauge

USGS gauge 02312600 sits on the Withlacoochee River and reads everything draining 995 square miles of the Withlacoochee basin. Its datum sits essentially at sea level NGVD29. Daily flow has been on record here since 1984, 43 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Five gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Withlacoochee River near Pineola, FL, reading 930 square miles. This gauge adds the 65 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Withlacoochee River at Wysong Dam, at Carlson, FL at 1,520 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 65% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Withlacoochee River near Inverness, FL, Withlacoochee River at SR 200 near Holder, FL and Withlacoochee River at US 41 at Dunnellon, FL. It then enters Lake Rousseau near Dunnellon, Fla, below which releases set the flow.

Normal flows here

The Withlacoochee River runs a median of 166 cfs at this gauge across 43 years of record. September is the fullest month at a median 410 cfs, and May the leanest at 59 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 4,900 cfs in 1998, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2001.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1984 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.