Wolf River near Byrdstown, 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 03416000 sits on the Wolf River and reads everything draining 106 square miles of the Obey basin. Its datum sits 704 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1943, 67 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 Dale Hollow Lake near Celina at 936 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 11% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Cumberland River at Celina, TN.

Normal flows here

The Wolf River runs a median of 64 cfs at this gauge across 67 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 241 cfs, and September the leanest at 15 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 13,400 cfs in 1975, and the lowest is 2.1 cfs in 1954.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1943 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

TVA dams near this gauge

TVA's Dale Hollow Dam is 21 miles from this gauge on the Obey system. Planned generation, lake level and tailwater elevation for it load below when TVA has published them.

• Dale Hollow Dam 21 miles
• Wolf Creek Dam 22 miles