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Current Level
0.300 mASD
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.315 mASD
24h Min
0.288 mASD
Typical Range
0.43 - 4.50
mASD
Highest Recorded
5.97 mASD
21 Jul 2007
Since Dec 1969
Current level is 5% of this
🚽Sewage overflows nearby
Recent Water Levels
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Prediction V2
Prediction Eris
Nimbus beta
Experimental model fusing soil moisture, river flow, groundwater and catchment
character. Shown with its calibrated 10–90% confidence band. Under evaluation —
not yet promoted, so treat as a second opinion.
River Flow
90 days
Daily mean discharge (m³/s) with the daily min–max band, from the EA Hydrology API. Flow is the volume of water passing the gauge — often a more direct flood signal than level.
Long Term
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Consecutive rainy days0 → 10+
Days Above Normal
This year vs 5-year monthly range
Recent Readings
Falling · -0.4 cm over 6h
24 Aug 00:30▼ -0.1 cm0.300 mASD
24 Aug 00:15▲ +0.2 cm0.301 mASD
24 Aug 00:00▬ steady0.299 mASD
23 Aug 23:45▼ -0.5 cm0.299 mASD
23 Aug 23:30▲ +0.4 cm0.304 mASD
23 Aug 23:15▼ -0.3 cm0.300 mASD
23 Aug 23:00▼ -0.1 cm0.303 mASD
23 Aug 22:45▲ +0.2 cm0.304 mASD
23 Aug 21:30▼ -0.1 cm0.302 mASD
23 Aug 21:15▼ -0.1 cm0.303 mASD
23 Aug 21:00▲ +0.1 cm0.304 mASD
23 Aug 20:45▼ -0.3 cm0.303 mASD
23 Aug 20:30▬ steady0.306 mASD
23 Aug 20:15▲ +0.1 cm0.306 mASD
23 Aug 20:00▲ +0.2 cm0.305 mASD
23 Aug 19:45▼ -0.2 cm0.303 mASD
23 Aug 19:30▲ +0.5 cm0.305 mASD
23 Aug 19:15▼ -0.4 cm0.300 mASD
23 Aug 19:00▬ steady0.304 mASD
23 Aug 18:450.304 mASD
Rainfall & Weather
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Flood history near this gauge
Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2012 for the 6 flood
areas linked to this gauge (nearest 0.1 km away).
Warnings apply to a whole flood area, not necessarily this exact spot. Years before 2006 aren't covered by the EA's historic record.
See also the Tenbury Wells flood history.
Geographic coordinates may reflect the access point for the gauge, and not the precise location in the watercourse that it is taking readings from.
Catchment Character
🌊 Mixed responseA balance of quick runoff and slower groundwater baseflow.
Your catchment is all the land that drains rainfall into the river above this gauge. Its character — how
steep, wet, wooded, urban or chalky that land is — decides how fast rain here turns into a rising river. A steep, bare or clay
catchment is “flashy” (rises and falls quickly, floods easily); a flat, chalk or well-wooded one is
slow and steady. The tiles below put numbers to that; the flow-duration curve reads left-to-right
from the river’s typical high flows (Q5) down to its low flows (Q95) — a steep curve means a flashy river.
The physical character of the land that drains to this gauge, and how it shapes its flood response — from the National River Flow Archive (UKCEH).
Baseflow Index
0.61
mixed response
Avg Annual Rainfall
905 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +3% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
0.6%
largely rural
Median Annual Flood
139 m³/s
QMED — typical yearly peak flow
Highest Recorded Flow
251 m³/s
21 Jul 2007
Flow-Duration Curve
Daily flow (m³/s) exceeded each % of the time — a steep curve is flashy, a flat one is steady. Q5 high · Q50 median · Q95 low.
Velocity area station with gravel control well gauged to and rarely exceeding bankfull.
More detail
The catchment
Left bank characterised by high relief hills and broad valleys. Steep and narrow on right bank. Geology: mainly Palaeozoic sediments with Pre-Cambrian crystalline rocks of the Longmynd. Relatively Drift free; some valley gravel and Boulder Clay in the lower reaches. Landuse mainly forestry and grazing.
The station
Velocity area station with gravel control. Well gauged to bankfull - open channel site with cableway. Straight wide channel, susceptible to bed movement. U/s shoaling may render low flow rating variable from year to year. Rarely out of bank. Installation of Flat V at d/s 54029 has largely eliminated apparent inconsistency between the two flow series.
How it measures flow
Well gauged to bankfull - open channel site with cableway. Straight wide channel, susceptible to bed movement. U/s shoaling may render low flow rating variable from year to year. Rarely out of bank. Some scatter in gaugings, but reasonable fit to bank full. Two peak flow ratings across period of record.
Flow regime
Negligible abstraction and effluent flows -natural flow regime.
The flow record
Due to gravel shift during 2007 flood, flows post 23/07/2007 reprocessed using updated rating. Full period of record peak flow data reviewed and released in September 2022 (WINFAP Files v11).
How this gauging station is built and how long it has measured (NRFA / UKCEH).
Gauge type
Velocity–area
Operating since
1956
Station datum
48.0 mAOD
Flow record
1956–2024 · 68 yrs · 100% complete
Peak-flow record
since 1956
Hydrometric area
54
Measured by
Environment Agency
Nearby Groundwater
Soil Moisture
Possible storm-overflow correlation
🚽 Storm overflows on this river
Frequently asked questions
Is the River Teme at Tenbury flooding today?
The current level is 0.30m, which is below the typical range. Flooding is very unlikely at this level.
Is the river level rising or falling at Tenbury?
Based on the most recent readings, the level is currently steady. The chart above shows the last 7 days of measurements, updated roughly every 15 minutes.
What is a normal level for the River Teme at Tenbury?
The typical range at this station is 0.43m to 4.50m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 4.50m are higher than usually seen and may indicate a flood risk.
How often is this river level data updated?
Readings are taken by the Environment Agency gauge roughly every 15 minutes and FloodRadar refreshes its data continuously, so the level shown is normally less than an hour old.
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📮 Flood risk by postcode near this gauge
Postcodes within 5 km with properties in the Environment Agency’s rivers-and-sea flood-risk bands:
