Wallen Creek at Pennington Gap
Highest listed crest 14.56 ftFlood stage 12.0 ft1 crests since 2025
The Wallen Creek at Pennington Gap crested above flood stage 1 time among the 1 crests the National Weather Service lists from 2025 to 2025. The highest, 14.56 ft on February 15, 2025, was minor flooding, 2.56 feet above flood stage.
The gauge
- Highest listed crest
- 14.56 ft
- February 15, 2025
- Flood stage
- 12.0 ft
- Major flooding from 22.0 ft
- Crests at major
- 0
- 1 above flood stage
- Most recent flood crest
- February 15, 2025
- 14.56 ft, minor flooding
Flood stages
The thresholds the National Weather Service uses for this gauge today, and how many listed crests reached each.
| Action stage | 10.0 | 0 | — |
| Flood stage (minor) | 12.0 | 1 | Feb 15, 2025 |
| Moderate flood stage | 17.0 | 0 | — |
| Major flood stage | 22.0 | 0 | — |
Every listed crest
1 crests from 2025 to 2025. Filled: at or above flood stage. Hover a crest for its date and stage.
- These are the crests the local National Weather Service office lists for the gauge: the highest on record and recent crests. Lesser floods between them may be missing, so counts by decade are a floor.
- Categories use today's flood stages. Levees, dams and channel changes since a crest can make old and new stages not directly comparable.
Highest crests
| 1 | Feb 15, 2025 | 14.56 | +2.56 | Minor |
Other gauges in Lee County
| Jonesville | 44.32 ft, Apr 5, 1977 | 1 |
| Stone | 12.40 ft, Mar 28, 2021 | 0 |
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NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge WLCV2, retrieved October 30, 2026. Stages in feet on the gauge's own datum, not elevation. Crests are as the National Weather Service lists them; preliminary values may be revised.