Middle Island Creek near Middlebourne
Highest listed crest 23.84 ftFlood stage 21.0 ft3 crests since 2019
The Middle Island Creek near Middlebourne crested above flood stage 2 times among the 3 crests the National Weather Service lists from 2019 to 2024. The highest, 23.84 ft on April 12, 2024, was minor flooding, 2.84 feet above flood stage. 1 other gauge on the Middle Island Creek crested above flood stage within a week of it.
The gauge
- Highest listed crest
- 23.84 ft
- April 12, 2024
- Flood stage
- 21.0 ft
- Major flooding from 29.0 ft
- Crests at major
- 0
- 2 above flood stage
- Most recent flood crest
- April 12, 2024
- 23.84 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 | 19.0 | 1 | Dec 17, 2019 |
| Flood stage (minor) | 21.0 | 2 | Apr 12, 2024 |
| Moderate flood stage | 26.0 | 0 | — |
| Major flood stage | 29.0 | 0 | — |
Every listed crest
3 crests from 2019 to 2024. Filled: at or above flood stage. Hover a crest for its date and stage.
Crests at or above flood stage, by decade
- 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 | Apr 12, 2024 | 23.84 | +2.84 | Minor |
| 2 | Feb 4, 2022 | 23.22 | +2.22 | Minor |
| 3 | Dec 17, 2019 | 20.01 | −0.99 | Action |
The worst floods along the Middle Island Creek
For this gauge's highest crests, the other gauges on the Middle Island Creek that crested above flood stage within a week.
Gauges on the Middle Island Creek
In USGS station-number order, which runs downstream within a river basin.
| Middlebourne this gauge | WV | 23.84 ft, Apr 12, 2024 | 0 |
| Little | WV | 33.10 ft, Aug 1, 1875 | 28 |
Other gauges in Tyler County
| Little | 33.10 ft, Aug 1, 1875 | 28 |
Tyler County: every hazard · River floods across the country · West Virginia
NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge MBRW2, 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.