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USGS 06329500 Yellowstone River near Sidney MT

PROVISIONAL DATA SUBJECT TO REVISION

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Flood Tracking - Stage Flood Tracking - Discharge Gage-height Corrections Base Rating Shifted Rating
(About shift-adjusted ratings).
Station operated by the USGS Wyoming-Montana Water Science Center as part of the Federal Priority Streamgages network in cooperation with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks and the USGS Cooperative Matching Funds program.

The elevation of zero gage height has been determined to be 1,882.87 feet above NAVD88. To obtain stream water-surface elevation values in NAVD88, add 1,882.87 feet to gage height values.
Leaving USGS: National Weather Service forecast. U.S. Coast Guard boating safety tips.
This station managed by the Billings Field Unit.

Available Parameters Available Period
  
2016-05-10  2026-05-28
1989-10-01  2026-05-28
2007-10-01  2026-05-28
2012-07-24  2026-05-28
2012-10-01  2026-05-28







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Temperature, water, degrees Celsius
Most recent instantaneous value: 20.6 05-28-2026   08:00 MDT
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Discharge, cubic feet per second
Most recent instantaneous value: 7000 05-28-2026   09:00 MDT
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Daily discharge, cubic feet per second -- statistics for May 28 based on 112 water years of record more
Min
(1960)		 Most Recent
Instantaneous
Value May 28		 25th
percen-
tile		 Median Mean 75th
percen-
tile		 Max
(2011)
6310 7000 18300 24000 27600 34400 78100

Gage height, feet
Most recent instantaneous value: 3.43 05-28-2026   09:00 MDT
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Turbidity, water, unfiltered, monochrome near infra-red LED light, 780-900 nm, detection angle 90 +-2.5 degrees, formazin nephelometric units (FNU)
Most recent instantaneous value: 25.6 05-28-2026   08:00 MDT
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Suspended sediment concentration, water, unfiltered, estimated by regression equation, milligrams per liter
 
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