Under Water...Again

The Joplin Globe, Tuesday, August 21, 2007, reported 11.95" of rain in Miller, 3.9" in Carthage, and 2.78" at the Joplin Airport. Larry Dooley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Springfield said that the precipitation was a result of Tropical Storm Erin. The Spring River at La Russell started climbing at midnight(Monday August 20) and reached its highest level at 3:35pm Monday afternoon, 12.8' deep. The new equipment that measures flow stopped recording when the water depth hit 1910 cubic feet per second(cfs). The USGS said that it had not been calibrated for water that deep.
12:00am (midnight)Monday morning: 197 cfs at 2.08' river gauge height
3:00am: 203 cfs at 2.12'
6:00am: 821 cfs at 3.88'
9:00am: over 1910 cfs at 7.31'
12:00 pm (noon): over 1910 cfs at 8.67'
3:00pm: over 1910 cfs at 12.44 '
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USGS Water Discharge Data now available

The USGS is now monitoring, recording and displaying the water discharge rates on Spring River at the La Russell Access Point. The data is available either graphically or in a table. The data is expressed in terms of cubic feet of water per second. The latest data indicates 237 cubic feet of water per second (cfs). This project is being implemented collaboratively between the United States Geological Society and Missouri Department of Natural Resources. (click on chart for larger image)