Wolftever Creek near Ooltewah, 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 03566420 sits on Wolftever Creek and reads everything draining 19 square miles of the Middle Tennessee-Chickamauga basin. Its datum sits 755 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1964, 32 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 Chickamauga Lake at 20,790 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 0% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Wolftever Creek runs a median of 12 cfs at this gauge across 32 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 36 cfs, and September the leanest at 5.0 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 2,860 cfs in 1973, and the lowest is 1.1 cfs in 1986.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1964 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

TVA dams near this gauge

TVA's Chickamauga Dam is 10 miles from this gauge on the Tennessee system. Planned generation, lake level and tailwater elevation for it load below when TVA has published them.

• Chickamauga Dam 10 miles
• Ocoee No. 1 Dam 24 miles