Lake Cherokee: 100.0% full as of 2025-01-17

The elevation-storage rating curve used to produce the storage hydrograph is made of two segments: (1) the segment up to the conservation pool top (below the red line) is based on measured data, and (2) the segment in the flood pool (above the red line) is an extrapolation from the first segment and shouldn't be relied upon for flood storage information.

Historical Data

Date Percent Full Mean Water Level
(ft)
Reservoir Storage
(acre-ft)
Conservation Storage
(acre-ft)
Conservation Capacity
(acre-ft)
Surface Area
(acres)
Today 2025-01-17 100.0 280.38 46,348 40,094 40,094 - n.a. -
Yesterday 2025-01-16 100.0 280.40 46,427 40,094 40,094 - n.a. -
2 days ago 2025-01-15 100.0 280.42 46,507 40,094 40,094 - n.a. -
1 week ago 2025-01-10 100.0 280.48 46,747 40,094 40,094 - n.a. -
1 month ago 2024-12-17 100.0 280.34 46,190 40,094 40,094 - n.a. -
3 months ago 2024-10-17 91.1 278.89 40,918 36,536 40,094 3,380
6 months ago 2024-07-17 100.0 280.28 45,953 40,094 40,094 - n.a. -
1 year ago 2024-01-17 81.9 277.75 37,215 32,833 40,094 3,128
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Percent Full is based on Conservation Storage and Conservation Capacity and doesn't account for storage in flood pool.

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   Values above, including today's are averaged conditions. For near real-time instantaneous water level, see table below or the interactive map viewer.

Most Recent Instantaneous Water Level

Date/time Water Level
(ft)
Conservation Pool Elevation
(ft)
Height Above Conservation Pool
(ft)
Most recent 2025-01-17 18:45 280.39 279.90 0.49
1 hour prior 2025-01-17 17:45 280.38 279.90 0.48
2 hours prior 2025-01-17 16:45 280.38 279.90 0.48
6 hours prior 2025-01-17 12:45 280.38 279.90 0.48
12 hours prior 2025-01-17 06:45 280.38 279.90 0.48
24 hours prior 2025-01-16 18:45 280.39 279.90 0.49
48 hours prior 2025-01-15 18:45 280.41 279.90 0.51
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Data is provisional and subject to revision.

Additional Information

Impoundment date 1948-01-01
Vertical datum NAVD88
Dead pool elevation 260.00 ft above NGVD29
Emergency spillway crest elevation 287.70 ft above NGVD29
Maximum design elevation 291.00 ft above NGVD29
Top of dam elevation 295.00 ft above NGVD29
Conservation pool elevation 280.00 ft above NGVD29
Data download (CSV) period of record, last one year, last 30 days

Elevation-Area-Capacity Curves

2003-11-01 (source: TWDB) : GIS Data
2015-04-01 (source: TWDB) : GIS Data
Data Source USGS:08021400

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