SHELL CREEK BASIN

06332523 EAST FORK SHELL CREEK NEAR PARSHALL, ND

LOCATION.--Lat 47×56'55", long 102×12'52", in NW14NW14NW14 sec.33, T.152 N., R.90 W., Mountrail County, Hydrologic Unit 10110101, on right bank 10 ft upstream from bridge on county road and 4 mi west of Parshall.

DRAINAGE AREA.--360 mi2.

WATER-DISCHARGE RECORDS

PERIOD OF RECORD.--July 1991 to current year.

GAGE.--Water-stage recorder. Elevation of gage is 1,890 ft above National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929, from topographic map.

REMARKS.--Records poor because of beaver activity.

Discharge, cubic feet per second 

WATER YEAR OCTOBER 2003 TO SEPTEMBER 2004

DAILY MEAN VALUES

DAY	OCT	NOV	DEC	JAN	FEB	MAR	APR	MAY	JUN	JUL	AUG	SEP
1	0.05	0.48	e0.74	e0.43	e0.08	e0.00	21	e1.7	2.6	e0.58	e0.00	e0.00
2	0.09	0.59	e0.71	e0.39	e0.00	e0.00	19	e1.6	2.4	0.73	e0.00	e0.00
3	0.09	0.55	e0.70	e0.36	e0.00	e0.10	18	e1.5	2.0	e0.56	e0.00	e0.00
4	0.07	0.69	e0.68	e0.32	e0.00	e0.12	15	e1.5	2.7	e0.46	e0.00	e0.00
5	0.10	0.72	e0.66	e0.29	e0.00	e0.15	12	e1.4	1.4	e0.38	e0.00	e0.00
6	0.15	0.65	e0.63	e0.28	e0.00	e0.20	9.4	e1.3	1.6	0.33	e0.00	e0.00
7	0.15	0.71	e0.61	e0.27	e0.00	e0.26	7.9	e1.3	0.98	0.41	e0.00	e0.00
8	0.16	0.76	e0.60	e0.26	e0.00	e0.36	5.2	e1.2	0.89	0.62	e0.00	e0.00
9	0.15	0.83	e0.53	e0.26	e0.00	e0.50	6.1	e1.2	0.92	0.62	e0.00	e0.00
10	0.13	0.84	e0.50	e0.25	e0.00	e0.60	7.3	e2.0	1.2	0.64	e0.20	e0.00
11	0.14	0.95	e0.48	e0.25	e0.00	e0.48	4.9	e5.0	1.8	0.74	e0.12	e0.00
12	0.17	0.98	e0.51	e0.28	e0.00	e0.44	2.2	e3.0	2.4	0.53	e0.05	e0.00
13	0.14	0.97	e0.60	e0.31	e0.00	e0.53	3.3	e2.5	e2.0	0.30	e0.00	e0.02
14	0.16	1.0	e0.65	e0.35	e0.00	e0.70	3.5	e2.0	e1.7	0.23	e0.00	e0.04
15	0.16	1.0	e0.67	e0.40	e0.00	e1.0	3.1	e1.8	e1.4	0.19	e0.00	e0.06
16	0.19	1.0	e0.68	e0.42	e0.00	e1.4	2.3	e1.6	e1.3	0.18	e0.00	e0.07
17	0.22	1.0	e0.68	e0.44	e0.00	e1.8	2.5	e1.5	e1.1	0.40	e0.00	e0.08
18	0.22	1.0	e0.68	e0.46	e0.00	e2.4	3.4	e2.4	e1.0	0.50	e0.00	e0.09
19	0.21	1.1	e0.68	e0.46	e0.00	e3.0	9.0	4.3	e0.94	0.43	e0.00	e0.09
20	0.21	1.1	e0.68	e0.44	e0.00	e4.0	5.1	3.7	e0.84	0.34	e0.00	e0.10
21	0.25	1.1	e0.68	e0.46	e0.00	e5.4	3.8	e2.8	e0.78	0.21	e0.00	e0.10
22	0.25	0.97	e0.70	e0.42	e0.00	13	1.5	e2.4	e0.72	0.09	e0.00	e0.11
23	0.27	e0.75	e0.70	e0.37	e0.00	21	4.0	e2.2	e0.67	0.05	e0.00	e0.11
24	0.24	e0.60	e0.69	e0.32	e0.00	24	2.3	e2.8	e0.63	e0.00	e0.00	e0.12
25	0.24	e0.70	e0.66	e0.28	e0.00	e34	e2.0	e1.8	e0.58	e0.00	e0.00	e0.12
26	0.36	e0.80	e0.64	e0.24	e0.00	37	e1.9	1.3	e0.53	0.12	e0.12	e0.11
27	0.41	e0.82	e0.64	e0.20	e0.00	44	e1.8	2.9	e0.50	0.19	e0.16	e0.10
28	0.38	e0.80	e0.64	e0.17	e0.00	35	e1.8	4.4	e0.47	0.10	e0.10	e0.10
29	0.49	e0.80	e0.60	e0.15	e0.00	28	e1.8	3.6	e0.44	0.07	e0.00	e0.10
30	0.53	e0.76	e0.54	e0.13	---	27	e1.7	2.3	e0.48	e0.00	e0.00	e0.10
31	0.48	---	e0.48	e0.11	---	21	---	2.3	---	e0.00	e0.00	---
TOTAL	6.86	25.02	19.64	9.77	0.08	307.44	182.8	71.3	36.97	10.00	0.75	1.62
MEAN	0.22	0.83	0.63	0.32	0.00	9.92	6.09	2.30	1.23	0.32	0.02	0.05
MAX	0.53	1.1	0.74	0.46	0.08	44	21	5.0	2.7	0.74	0.20	0.12
MIN	0.05	0.48	0.48	0.11	0.00	0.00	1.5	1.2	0.44	0.00	0.00	0.00
AC-FT	14	50	39	19	0.2	610	363	141	73	20	1.5	3.2
STATISTICS OF MONTHLY MEAN DATA FOR WATER YEARS 1991 - 2004, BY WATER YEAR (WY)
MEAN	1.32	1.64	0.94	0.39	0.76	35.5	14.7	5.16	4.71	2.91	1.25	0.71
MAX	4.71	3.10	1.54	1.22	3.58	134	64.9	16.0	16.4	23.5	11.6	2.66
(WY)	(1995)	(2000)	(2000)	(1995)	(1995)	(1999)	(1996)	(1999)	(1998)	(1993)	(1993)	(1991)
MIN	0.18	0.74	0.02	0.00	0.00	4.04	2.97	1.64	0.66	0.01	0.00	0.00
(WY)	(2001)	(2001)	(2001)	(2001)	(2001)	(2002)	(2000)	(1992)	(1992)	(2001)	(2003)	(2001)

SUMMARY STATISTICS	FOR 2003 CALENDAR YEAR	FOR 2004 WATER YEAR	WATER YEARS 1991 - 2004
ANNUAL TOTAL	1,356.99	672.25
ANNUAL MEAN	3.72	1.84	5.88
HIGHEST ANNUAL MEAN			15.1 1999
LOWEST ANNUAL MEAN			1.84 2004
HIGHEST DAILY MEAN	128 Mar 22	44 Mar 27	930 Mar 27, 1999
LOWEST DAILY MEAN	0.00 Jul 31	0.00 Feb  2	0.00 Sep  2, 1991
ANNUAL SEVEN-DAY MINIMUM	0.00 Aug 10	0.00 Feb  2	0.00 Sep 10, 1998
MAXIMUM PEAK FLOW		a46 Mar 25	b1,170 Mar 27, 1999
MAXIMUM PEAK STAGE		c4.63 Mar 27	6.46 Mar 27, 1997
ANNUAL RUNOFF (AC-FT)	2,690	1,330	4,260
10 PERCENT EXCEEDS	6.9	3.0	8.4
50 PERCENT EXCEEDS	0.61	0.48	1.0
90 PERCENT EXCEEDS	0.00	0.00	0.09

a Gage height, 4.52 ft b Gage height, 6.39 ft c Backwater from ice e Estimated

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