CANNONBALL RIVER BASIN

06351200 CANNONBALL RIVER NEAR RALEIGH, ND

LOCATION.--Lat 46×07'37", long 101×19'58", in SW14SW14NW14 sec.33, T.131 N., R.85 W., Grant County, Hydrologic Unit 10130204, on left bank at upstream side of bridge on State Highway 31 and 20 miles south of Raleigh.

DRAINAGE AREA.--1,640 mi2, approximately.

WATER-DISCHARGE RECORDS

PERIOD OF RECORD.--March 2001 to current year.

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

REMARKS.--Records good except for estimated daily discharges, which are fair.

EXTREMES OUTSIDE PERIOD OF RECORD.--Maximum discharge about 15,000 ft3/s, Mar. 20, 1997, gage height, 16 ft (from floodmark), was probably higher in 1950.

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	0.02	e0.31	e0.44	e0.16	e2.5	e9.9	210	26	15	31	3.3	e0.02
2	0.04	e0.24	e0.45	e0.15	e2.5	e13	176	26	15	53	2.9	0.00
3	0.10	e0.19	e0.44	e0.14	e2.5	e16	151	25	17	16	2.7	0.00
4	0.08	e0.16	e0.42	e0.13	e2.5	e20	129	24	16	12	2.5	0.14
5	0.12	e0.13	e0.39	e0.13	e2.5	e30	111	23	18	7.9	3.4	2.3
6	0.24	e0.11	e0.35	e0.12	e2.5	e56	97	22	15	13	8.2	1.4
7	0.26	e0.09	e0.35	e0.12	e2.5	e88	88	21	13	8.8	5.5	0.87
8	0.22	e0.08	e0.35	e0.13	e2.5	e218	82	21	11	37	3.0	0.54
9	0.20	e0.06	e0.35	e0.16	e2.6	e396	75	20	11	18	2.5	0.26
10	0.22	e0.05	e0.38	e0.20	e2.6	e783	67	19	12	12	2.0	0.09
11	0.24	e0.04	e0.42	e0.25	e2.6	e2,980	54	18	43	12	1.8	0.01
12	0.24	e0.04	e0.46	e0.30	e2.6	e4,730	51	17	15	50	1.9	0.00
13	0.32	e0.04	e0.49	e0.36	e2.6	e3,010	52	16	13	13	1.9	0.00
14	0.45	e0.04	e0.51	e0.42	e2.8	e2,070	51	16	13	9.2	1.5	0.00
15	0.51	e0.04	e0.52	e0.50	e2.8	e1,520	46	16	11	7.4	1.3	0.10
16	0.56	e0.04	e0.53	e0.89	e2.6	e1,180	43	16	13	6.6	1.3	0.16
17	0.60	e0.04	e0.55	e0.98	e2.3	e719	42	16	13	8.1	1.0	0.13
18	0.62	e0.05	e0.55	e1.1	e2.0	614	42	16	11	9.2	1.3	0.07
19	0.57	e0.05	e0.56	e1.3	e1.9	548	42	16	11	9.0	0.95	0.01
20	0.52	e0.05	e0.56	e1.7	e1.8	526	40	16	8.5	6.6	0.69	0.00
21	0.56	e0.06	e0.56	e2.0	e1.8	468	39	15	8.6	6.5	0.82	0.00
22	0.58	e0.06	e0.54	e2.2	e2.0	371	36	17	9.5	6.1	0.80	0.05
23	0.56	e0.08	e0.54	e2.3	e2.0	292	36	16	9.6	5.0	0.85	0.90
24	0.42	e0.10	e0.51	e2.4	e2.1	242	35	17	9.5	5.0	0.78	6.7
25	0.40	e0.14	e0.47	e2.4	e2.3	213	34	17	8.9	4.4	e0.62	2.6
26	0.60	e0.26	e0.44	e2.4	e2.6	193	32	14	8.1	3.4	e0.50	1.4
27	0.67	e0.37	e0.40	e2.5	e3.6	188	31	14	8.1	3.3	e0.32	1.3
28	0.67	e0.41	e0.33	e2.4	e5.9	179	29	15	7.5	4.1	e0.25	1.2
29	e0.61	e0.42	e0.29	e2.4	e6.9	175	28	15	7.0	3.7	e0.04	1.1
30	e0.52	e0.44	e0.23	e2.5	---	153	27	16	7.7	3.6	e0.02	1.0
31	e0.42	---	e0.19	e2.5	---	196	---	15	---	3.1	e0.01	---
TOTAL	12.14	4.19	13.57	35.24	78.4	22,196.9	1,976	561	379.0	388.0	54.65	22.35
MEAN	0.39	0.14	0.44	1.14	2.70	716	65.9	18.1	12.6	12.5	1.76	0.74
MAX	0.67	0.44	0.56	2.5	6.9	4,730	210	26	43	53	8.2	6.7
MIN	0.02	0.04	0.19	0.12	1.8	9.9	27	14	7.0	3.1	0.01	0.00
AC-FT	24	8.3	27	70	156	44,030	3,920	1,110	752	770	108	44
STATISTICS OF MONTHLY MEAN DATA FOR WATER YEARS 2001 - 2004, BY WATER YEAR (WY)
MEAN	5.22	8.37	7.42	6.09	6.62	449	99.5	26.2	29.5	45.9	24.6	3.08
MAX	13.5	14.0	13.2	12.1	12.3	853	254	34.8	86.9	154	93.5	10.8
(WY)	(2002)	(2002)	(2002)	(2002)	(2002)	(2001)	(2001)	(2001)	(2001)	(2001)	(2001)	(2001)
MIN	0.39	0.14	0.44	1.14	2.70	24.1	37.9	18.1	5.52	1.03	0.01	0.33
(WY)	(2004)	(2004)	(2004)	(2004)	(2004)	(2002)	(2002)	(2004)	(2002)	(2003)	(2003)	(2003)

SUMMARY STATISTICS	FOR 2003 CALENDAR YEAR	FOR 2004 WATER YEAR	WATER YEARS 2001 - 2004
ANNUAL TOTAL	9,163.31	25,721.44
ANNUAL MEAN	25.1	70.3	37.3
HIGHEST ANNUAL MEAN			70.3 2004
LOWEST ANNUAL MEAN			14.6 2002
HIGHEST DAILY MEAN	1,290 Mar 22	4,730 Mar 12	4,730 Mar 12, 2004
LOWEST DAILY MEAN	0.00 Jul 24	0.00 Sep  2	0.00 Sep  6, 2002
ANNUAL SEVEN-DAY MINIMUM	0.00 Jul 30	0.03 Aug 29	0.00 Sep 26, 2002
MAXIMUM PEAK FLOW		a6,500 Mar 12	a6,500 Mar 12, 2004
MAXIMUM PEAK STAGE		b12.76 Mar 12	b12.76 Mar 12, 2004
ANNUAL RUNOFF (AC-FT)	18,180	51,020	27,000
10 PERCENT EXCEEDS	35	55	35
50 PERCENT EXCEEDS	2.7	2.5	8.2
90 PERCENT EXCEEDS	0.00	0.10	0.08

a About b Backwater from ice e Estimated

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