Payne Creek near Bowling Green FL
Hardee County, Florida · USGS 02295420
Latest observation
What this gauge represents: This gauge measures conditions on Payne Creek at its USGS monitoring location in Hardee County; conditions elsewhere on the waterway may differ.
Observed · 59 minutes ago
Observed
How to read these numbers
How much water moves past the gauge each second. Higher numbers mean more water is moving downstream.
The water-surface height at this gauge. It is useful for tracking rises, falls and flood thresholds, but it is not the river's total depth.
How much the latest reading has risen or fallen compared with roughly 24 hours earlier.
The typical streamflow for this date based on USGS historical statistics. A multiple such as 3× means current flow is about three times the historical median.
Get Water Data's plain-language summary of current flow, historical context and recent direction.
Official action and flood thresholds where available. These levels are specific to each gauge location.
Gauge height and flood stage are station-specific. A 12-foot reading at one gauge should not be directly compared with 12 feet at another.
Above historical median · Falling
Streamflow is currently 163 ft³/s, 7% above the historical median for this date. Flow has fallen 24 CFS over the past 24 hours.
USGS-reported historical daily median for 09-27: 153 ft³/s · Based on USGS day-of-year statistics
How trends & context are calculated →Streamflow trend
Daily mean streamflow · Aug 28–Sep 25 · dates shown in UTC · 29 observations
Look at the data (29 rows)
| Date (UTC) | Daily mean |
|---|---|
| Aug 28, 2026, 12:00 AM | 60.1 CFS |
| Aug 29, 2026, 12:00 AM | 53.9 CFS |
| Aug 30, 2026, 12:00 AM | 50.4 CFS |
| Aug 31, 2026, 12:00 AM | 59.1 CFS |
| Sep 1, 2026, 12:00 AM | 76.1 CFS |
| Sep 2, 2026, 12:00 AM | 75.5 CFS |
| Sep 3, 2026, 12:00 AM | 98.6 CFS |
| Sep 4, 2026, 12:00 AM | 117 CFS |
| Sep 5, 2026, 12:00 AM | 111 CFS |
| Sep 6, 2026, 12:00 AM | 104 CFS |
| Sep 7, 2026, 12:00 AM | 97.2 CFS |
| Sep 8, 2026, 12:00 AM | 113 CFS |
| Sep 9, 2026, 12:00 AM | 130 CFS |
| Sep 10, 2026, 12:00 AM | 219 CFS |
| Sep 11, 2026, 12:00 AM | 372 CFS |
| Sep 12, 2026, 12:00 AM | 317 CFS |
| Sep 13, 2026, 12:00 AM | 300 CFS |
| Sep 14, 2026, 12:00 AM | 383 CFS |
| Sep 15, 2026, 12:00 AM | 424 CFS |
| Sep 16, 2026, 12:00 AM | 366 CFS |
| Sep 17, 2026, 12:00 AM | 319 CFS |
| Sep 18, 2026, 12:00 AM | 275 CFS |
| Sep 19, 2026, 12:00 AM | 237 CFS |
| Sep 20, 2026, 12:00 AM | 215 CFS |
| Sep 21, 2026, 12:00 AM | 205 CFS |
| Sep 22, 2026, 12:00 AM | 208 CFS |
| Sep 23, 2026, 12:00 AM | 218 CFS |
| Sep 24, 2026, 12:00 AM | 214 CFS |
| Sep 25, 2026, 12:00 AM | 199 CFS |
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