Tar River at Tarboro, NC
Edgecombe County, North Carolina · USGS 02083500
Latest observation
What this gauge represents: This gauge measures conditions on Tar River at its USGS monitoring location in Edgecombe County; conditions elsewhere on the waterway may differ.
Observed · 32 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.
Below historical median · Falling
Streamflow is currently 161 ft³/s, 66% below the historical median for this date. Flow has fallen 30 CFS over the past 24 hours.
USGS-reported historical daily median for 09-27: 478 ft³/s · Based on USGS day-of-year statistics
How trends & context are calculated →Streamflow trend
Daily mean streamflow · Aug 28–Sep 26 · dates shown in UTC · 30 observations
Look at the data (30 rows)
| Date (UTC) | Daily mean |
|---|---|
| Aug 28, 2026, 12:00 AM | 105 CFS |
| Aug 29, 2026, 12:00 AM | 105 CFS |
| Aug 30, 2026, 12:00 AM | 107 CFS |
| Aug 31, 2026, 12:00 AM | 98.3 CFS |
| Sep 1, 2026, 12:00 AM | 95.5 CFS |
| Sep 2, 2026, 12:00 AM | 94.1 CFS |
| Sep 3, 2026, 12:00 AM | 93.2 CFS |
| Sep 4, 2026, 12:00 AM | 117 CFS |
| Sep 5, 2026, 12:00 AM | 153 CFS |
| Sep 6, 2026, 12:00 AM | 545 CFS |
| Sep 7, 2026, 12:00 AM | 410 CFS |
| Sep 8, 2026, 12:00 AM | 247 CFS |
| Sep 9, 2026, 12:00 AM | 176 CFS |
| Sep 10, 2026, 12:00 AM | 148 CFS |
| Sep 11, 2026, 12:00 AM | 132 CFS |
| Sep 12, 2026, 12:00 AM | 122 CFS |
| Sep 13, 2026, 12:00 AM | 123 CFS |
| Sep 14, 2026, 12:00 AM | 192 CFS |
| Sep 15, 2026, 12:00 AM | 161 CFS |
| Sep 16, 2026, 12:00 AM | 141 CFS |
| Sep 17, 2026, 12:00 AM | 127 CFS |
| Sep 18, 2026, 12:00 AM | 116 CFS |
| Sep 19, 2026, 12:00 AM | 108 CFS |
| Sep 20, 2026, 12:00 AM | 107 CFS |
| Sep 21, 2026, 12:00 AM | 117 CFS |
| Sep 22, 2026, 12:00 AM | 196 CFS |
| Sep 23, 2026, 12:00 AM | 667 CFS |
| Sep 24, 2026, 12:00 AM | 370 CFS |
| Sep 25, 2026, 12:00 AM | 222 CFS |
| Sep 26, 2026, 12:00 AM | 177 CFS |
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