Rivers in Tennessee

Wolf River at Collierville

Shelby County, TennesseeNWS COTT1USGS 07030600Memphis office

Below flood stage
2.97ftStage

Observed Sun, Sep 20, 2:45 PM CDT

Flood stage
13.00 ft
Record crest
16.73 ft2016

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Flood stages and impacts

CategoryStage
Major flood19.00 ft
Moderate flood16.00 ft
Minor flood13.00 ft
Action9.00 ft
  1. 21.00 ftCollierville-Arlington Road is under 4 feet of water south of the bridge. Most houses east of Collierville-Arlington Road between the east end of Shelton Road and Arlington Hall Drive are flooded. Houses northeast of Alexandria Drive by the interstate highway are flooded. Many houses on the north end of Aston Court Subdivision between Jennifer Lane and Johnash Court are flooded. Johnson Park is all flooded.
  2. 20.00 ftCollierville-Arlington Road is under 3 feet of water south of the bridge. Road to school buildings east of Houston Levee Road is flooded.
  3. 19.00 ftCollierville-Arlington Road is under over 2 feet of water south of the bridge. The south end of the parking lot of the church just north of the river at Houston Levee Road is flooded. The parking lot of the school east of Houston Levee Road begins to flood.
  4. 18.00 ftUp to one and half feet of water is rushing over Collierville-Arlington Road just north of Shelton Road East.
  5. 17.00 ftFour to six inches of water is flowing over the Collierville-Arlington Road just north of Shelton Road East. At Johnson Park, baseball fields are flooding, and the road to the soccer fields is closed. There is extensive flooding of the school east of Houston Levee Road.
  6. 16.00 ftMuch of the Collierville Greenbelt is flooded.
  7. 14.00 ftCampus of school east of Houston Levee Road begins to flood. Northwest part of Johnson Park is flooding.
  8. 12.00 ftThe Wolf begins to go over its banks.
  9. 10.00 ftWater is backing into small streams that flow into the Wolf River, and old stream beds in the swampy bottom are beginning to fill with water again.

Crest history

4 crests on NOAA’s list since 2014.

#DateStage
1March 11, 201616.73 ft
2June 29, 201414.53 ft
3September 1, 201714.51 ft
4February 23, 201513.00 ft

Most recent crests

  • September 1, 2017: 14.51 ft
  • March 11, 2016: 16.73 ft
  • February 23, 2015: 13.00 ft
  • June 29, 2014: 14.53 ft

Nearby

Upstream, downstream and the gauges around this one.

What this means

Forecasts by the Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center. Graphical forecasts are not available during times of high water, forecast crest information can be found in the local WFO web page.

Sources

Stage, flood stages, impacts and crest history from NOAA’s National Water Prediction Service. Streamflow and the daily record from the U.S. Geological Survey.