About this river
Big Sewee Creek is a 5.3 mile river near Paddle Dynamics in Tennessee. Streamflow is measured at the USGS gauge Sewee Creek near Decatur, TN (site 03543500). The National Hydrography Dataset places it at stream order 5. Reach geometry comes from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.
Typical flow by month
1934 to 2026
Big Sewee Creek typically runs highest in March, at a median 240 cfs, and lowest in September, at 28 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 12,900 cfs, in 1963.
| Month | Typical (cfs) | Usual range (cfs) | Relative level |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 201 | 106 to 363 | |
| February | 232 | 138 to 418 | |
| March | 240 | 156 to 410 | |
| April | 178 | 112 to 280 | |
| May | 90 | 61 to 162 | |
| June | 55 | 42 to 78 | |
| July | 45 | 31 to 81 | |
| August | 36 | 28 to 60 | |
| September | 28 | 22 to 41 | |
| October | 29 | 22 to 51 | |
| November | 41 | 28 to 81 | |
| December | 110 | 52 to 243 |
Typical is the median of each month’s daily median values, and the usual range runs from the median 25th to the median 75th percentile, across about 75 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Sewee Creek near Decatur, TN (site 03543500). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.
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