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USGS Gauge 02055379 — Tinker Creek Upper at Columbia St at Roanoke, Virginia
Water temperature 64.8 °F. 4.2 °F above the five-year normal for this date. 28 cfs.
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This gauge is not reporting
- 64.8 °F Water temperature
- 28 Cubic ft / second
- +4.2 °F vs 5-yr normal
- 59.5 °FThis date last year
This gauge is not sending water temperature — it has sent no water temperature for 720 days, since 8 October 2024. USGS still answers for it, with the last value it ever sent and nothing to say the sensor has gone, so nothing on this page is presented as a current reading. The figure above is modelled: this gauge's own fitted line, its intercept plus its slope against the 3-day mean air temperature over it, fitted on its own daily record, built from 782 days of this gauge's own record. A gauge stopping does not unmake what it recorded while it ran, and the record below is the same record the line was fitted on. Its scatter against that record is ±1.3 °F, and it is a statement about what this water usually does at this air temperature, not about what it is doing. Everything below — the record, the monthly means, the thirty-day chart — is the gauge's own history and is unaffected. The normal is the mean of every reading at this gauge within 3 days of this calendar date in the previous years of record — 21 readings, averaging 60.6 °F.
The last thirty days
Daily means from USGS. A gap in the line is a gap in the record.
The record at this gauge
| Month | Mean temp | Mean flow |
|---|---|---|
| Jan | 43.1 °F | 52 |
| Feb | 46.9 °F | 69 |
| Mar | 52.4 °F | 51 |
| Apr | 58.9 °F | 56 |
| May | 64.2 °F | 56 |
| Jun | 68.5 °F | 29 |
| Jul | 72.6 °F | 24 |
| Aug | 70.7 °F | 32 |
| Sep | 66.3 °F | 35 |
| Oct | 59.2 °F | 28 |
| Nov | 49.9 °F | 40 |
| Dec | 45.9 °F | 54 |
- 75.7 °FWarmest, 2024-07-09
- 34.5 °FColdest, 2022-01-17
- 644Highest flow, 2022-05-27
- 8Lowest flow, 2024-09-16
Computed here from the last 5 years of USGS daily values at this gauge — 1,099 temperature days over 3.0 years and 1,103 flow days. These are not USGS-published normals, and a month with fewer than 20 days of record is left blank rather than averaged.
What this gauge predicts
This is one of the gauges this site fits an air-to-water model against, which is how the map colours water that has no gauge on it. July mean 72.04 °F; the fit explains 91% of the variance with a typical error of 1.261 °F.
The water it stands in
Tinker Creek, classified Class VII (stocked holdover) by VDWR — the nearest reach carrying that classification is 0.58 mi from the gauge.
Snapped to NHD reach Tinker Creek (15000100134143), 0.8 m away. That join is what lets the app paint this gauge's reading onto the reach it measures.
Other gauges near this one
- Tinker Creek above Glade Creek at Roanoke, VA 2.8 mi · USGS 0205551614
- Roanoke River at Route 117 at Roanoke, Va 5.1 mi · USGS 02054750
- Roanoke River at Rts 639/760 at Salem, Va 9.8 mi · USGS 02054550
Access near this gauge
- Tinker Creek Landing 3.3 mi · Tinker Creek
Fly shops nearby
- Blue Ridge Fly Fishers3.0 mi · Roanoke
- Bob's Up The Creek Outfitters19.5 mi
- Walkabout Outfitter26.7 mi · Blacksburg