USGS Streamgage 06442500
Medicine Creek at Kennebec, SD
Medicine Creek at Kennebec, SD is USGS streamgage 06442500, monitoring river discharge in hydrologic subbasin 10140104. It drains a watershed of about 447 square miles. Discharge records at this site go back to 1952. Typical flow runs near 0 cfs in July and 1.3 cfs in April, with the higher of the two arriving in April.
Gauge details
- Drainage area
- 447 sq mi
- Gauge elevation
- 1,673 ft
- Subbasin (HUC-8)
- 10140104
- Coordinates
- 43.90524, -99.87617
- USGS site number
- 06442500
- Records begin
- 1952-04-01 (74 years)
Typical flow by month
Long-term daily discharge percentiles from the USGS record (up to 37 years of data), averaged within each month. These describe the historical normal range — they are not a forecast and not today's reading.
| Month | Low p10 | Typical p50 | High p90 | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| February | 0 | 0 | 1.7 | |
| March | 0 | 1.3 | 180.2 | |
| April | 0 | 1.3 | 137.7 | |
| May | 0 | 0.3 | 80.7 | |
| June | 0 | 0.1 | 62.2 | |
| July | 0 | 0 | 3.6 | |
| August | 0 | 0 | 0.6 | |
| September | 0 | 0 | 1.3 | |
| October | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| November | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| December | 0 | 0 | 0 |
All values in cubic feet per second (cfs).