Yellow Creek at Ellis Mills, 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 03436690 sits on Yellow Creek and reads everything draining 103 square miles of the Lower Cumberland basin. Its datum sits 417 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1981, 37 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Two gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Yellowcreek near Pond, TN, reading 6.0 square miles. This gauge adds the 97 square miles that drain in between.

Normal flows here

Yellow Creek runs a median of 76 cfs at this gauge across 37 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 185 cfs, and September the leanest at 29 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 11,600 cfs in 2010, and the lowest is 14 cfs in 2007.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1981 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

TVA dams near this gauge

TVA's Cheatham Dam is 19 miles from this gauge on the Cumberland system. Planned generation, lake level and tailwater elevation for it load below when TVA has published them.

• Cheatham Dam 19 miles