Gulf Coast Gauges

Hickory Branch near Kernan water level

USGS gauge 08016600 · Beauregard Parish · Lake Charles and Southwest Louisiana

0.22 ft

gage height, Oct 23, 2026 at 2:45 PM CDT · 3 hours ago

Highest since 1946 (USGS)
28.60 ft (December 28, 1982)
Usual range
0.26 to 0.64 ft

USGS marks recent readings as provisional: they can be revised after review.

No National Weather Service alert covering Beauregard Parish was active when this page was generated (Oct 23, 2026 at 5:50 PM CDT). Alerts are issued and expire at any time; the current list is at alerts.weather.gov.

Last 7 days

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Hourly averages of USGS readings. The shaded band is this gauge's usual range: the middle 80% of its readings since September 11, 2026.

How to read this gauge

Gage height is the height of the water surface above this gauge's own zero point. It is not a water depth. USGS publishes no datum elevation for this gauge, so it can't be converted to an elevation here.

Daily highs and lows since September 11, 2026

0.2 0.6 0.9 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 1946

In 36 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 1946), the highest peak was 28.60 ft on December 28, 1982. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 0.41 ft on October 3, 2026.

-2 6 15 23 31 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 Water year 1946: 22.31 ft on May 30, 1946 Water year 1947: 26.00 ft on June 22, 1947 Water year 1948: 16.70 ft on February 25, 1948 Water year 1949: 20.16 ft on April 23, 1949 Water year 1950: 25.58 ft on June 4, 1950 Water year 1951: 13.42 ft on September 26, 1951 Water year 1952: 23.09 ft on April 23, 1952 Water year 1953: 26.26 ft on May 19, 1953 Water year 1954: 21.12 ft on May 2, 1954 Water year 1955: 27.83 ft on May 20, 1955 Water year 1956: 14.78 ft on January 22, 1956 Water year 1957: 22.42 ft on December 23, 1956 Water year 1958: 27.62 ft on September 20, 1958 Water year 1961: 26.13 ft on March 18, 1961 Water year 1962: 19.25 ft on December 19, 1961 Water year 1964: 19.98 ft on March 3, 1964 Water year 1965: 20.33 ft on March 1, 1965 Water year 1967: 24.00 ft on April 16, 1967 Water year 1968: 19.99 ft on January 10, 1968 Water year 1969: 20.37 ft on February 22, 1969 Water year 1971: 26.53 ft on October 12, 1970 Water year 1972: 18.89 ft on December 6, 1971 Water year 1973: 21.04 ft on March 25, 1973 Water year 1974: 24.14 ft on January 20, 1974 Water year 1975: 20.25 ft on January 8, 1975 Water year 1976: 21.05 ft on March 26, 1976 Water year 1977: 16.90 ft on April 21, 1977 Water year 1978: 25.95 ft on December 2, 1977 Water year 1979: 22.96 ft on September 20, 1979 Water year 1980: 27.76 ft on May 16, 1980 Water year 1981: 20.24 ft on June 7, 1981 Water year 1983: 28.60 ft on December 28, 1982 Water year 2023: 0.69 ft on September 25, 2023 Water year 2024: 20.49 ft on May 14, 2024 Water year 2025: 25.28 ft on May 8, 2025 Water year 2026: 14.37 ft on July 14, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 0.41 ft on October 3, 2026 1983 1955

Each dot is the highest gage height of a water year (October to September), from the USGS annual peak record, with recent years USGS has not published yet taken from its 15-minute readings and this site's own; hover a dot for its date. Dashed lines are NWS flood stages.

Download the readings

hickory-branch-near-kernan.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 4,048 rows, with time in UTC and Central, gage height in feet, and the USGS approval status.

Source. Gage height from the U.S. Geological Survey. This site is not affiliated with either agency.