Description, qualifying comments, and acceptable water years.
Drainage area is 2500 sq.mi. Datum is 1096.49 ft.
Located in hydrologic unit 10230003 at Latitude: 42:28:20N Longitude: 095:47:49W
Station is in the state of IA (county code 193) and serviced by the IA office.
Channel slope is 1.99 feet/mile
Stream length is 169.00 miles
Mean basin elevation is 1420.00 feet above National Geodetic Vertical Datum
Percent of contributing drainage area covered by
Storage: 1.39% Lakes: 1.39% Forests: 0.90% Glaciers: N.A.%
Soil infiltration index is 3.30 inches
Annual precipitation is 28.00 inches
Precipitation intensity is 2.90 inches/24 hour (expected on the average once each two years)
January minimum temperature is 7.00 degrees Fahrenheit
Comments and qualifications on the data:
Only monthly discharges should be used prior to October 1936 due to rough estimates of flow for missing or
ice-affected record.
Daily and longer averages for 61 water years are acceptable (all years except partial years).
A water year with acceptable data is indicated by an asterisk in the time line, which spans 1874 through 1988.
Water year
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
8 8 8 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9
7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8
4-----0----5----0----5----0----5----0----5----0----5----0----5----0----5----0----5----0----5----0----5----0----5--8
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The streamflow data
Daily values, monthly mean values, and yearly mean values
of streamflow data are available in tablular form.
Select the desired option from the list below.
a. Table of daily data (211K text)
b. Table of monthly data
c. Table of annual data
The data tables do not have column heading for ease of reading into statistical programs.
For a detailed description of the format of the data tables,
select the corresponding file from the list below.
a. Format of the daily data table
b. Format of the monthly data table
c. Format of the yearly data table