Yakima River at Umtanum, WA
Kittitas County, Washington · USGS 12484500
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What this gauge represents: This gauge measures conditions on Yakima River at its USGS monitoring location in Kittitas County; conditions elsewhere on the waterway may differ.
Observed · 56 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 · Steady
Streamflow is currently 998 ft³/s, 26% below the historical median for this date. Flow has been relatively steady over the past 24 hours.
USGS-reported historical daily median for 09-27: 1,340 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 | 2,780 CFS |
| Aug 29, 2026, 12:00 AM | 2,720 CFS |
| Aug 30, 2026, 12:00 AM | 2,650 CFS |
| Aug 31, 2026, 12:00 AM | 2,500 CFS |
| Sep 1, 2026, 12:00 AM | 2,310 CFS |
| Sep 2, 2026, 12:00 AM | 2,140 CFS |
| Sep 3, 2026, 12:00 AM | 2,020 CFS |
| Sep 4, 2026, 12:00 AM | 1,940 CFS |
| Sep 5, 2026, 12:00 AM | 2,000 CFS |
| Sep 6, 2026, 12:00 AM | 1,990 CFS |
| Sep 7, 2026, 12:00 AM | 1,890 CFS |
| Sep 8, 2026, 12:00 AM | 1,760 CFS |
| Sep 9, 2026, 12:00 AM | 1,650 CFS |
| Sep 10, 2026, 12:00 AM | 1,490 CFS |
| Sep 11, 2026, 12:00 AM | 1,440 CFS |
| Sep 12, 2026, 12:00 AM | 1,360 CFS |
| Sep 13, 2026, 12:00 AM | 1,780 CFS |
| Sep 14, 2026, 12:00 AM | 1,850 CFS |
| Sep 15, 2026, 12:00 AM | 1,520 CFS |
| Sep 16, 2026, 12:00 AM | 1,370 CFS |
| Sep 17, 2026, 12:00 AM | 1,280 CFS |
| Sep 18, 2026, 12:00 AM | 1,200 CFS |
| Sep 19, 2026, 12:00 AM | 1,160 CFS |
| Sep 20, 2026, 12:00 AM | 1,120 CFS |
| Sep 21, 2026, 12:00 AM | 1,070 CFS |
| Sep 22, 2026, 12:00 AM | 1,020 CFS |
| Sep 23, 2026, 12:00 AM | 990 CFS |
| Sep 24, 2026, 12:00 AM | 974 CFS |
| Sep 25, 2026, 12:00 AM | 1,000 CFS |
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