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Montford

Severn
Severn Uplands catchment • Montford • Shropshire • ID: 2005 • Level
(21m ago) • 1 reading/hr • 180 views

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Current Level
0.530 mASD
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.558 mASD
24h Min
0.530 mASD
Typical Range
0.29 - 4.80
mASD
Highest Recorded
18.33 mASD
23 Apr 2025
Since Apr 1952
Current level is 3% of this
Current Flow
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Recent Readings

Steady over 6h
23 Aug 22:45 ▼ -0.2 cm 0.530 mASD
23 Aug 21:30 ▬ steady 0.532 mASD
23 Aug 21:15 ▬ steady 0.532 mASD
23 Aug 21:00 ▬ steady 0.532 mASD
23 Aug 20:45 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.532 mASD
23 Aug 20:30 ▬ steady 0.531 mASD
23 Aug 20:15 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.531 mASD
23 Aug 20:00 ▬ steady 0.532 mASD
23 Aug 19:45 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.532 mASD
23 Aug 19:30 ▬ steady 0.531 mASD
23 Aug 19:15 ▬ steady 0.531 mASD
23 Aug 19:00 ▬ steady 0.531 mASD
23 Aug 18:45 ▬ steady 0.531 mASD
23 Aug 18:30 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.531 mASD
23 Aug 18:15 ▬ steady 0.530 mASD
23 Aug 18:00 ▬ steady 0.530 mASD
23 Aug 17:45 ▬ steady 0.530 mASD
23 Aug 17:30 ▬ steady 0.530 mASD
23 Aug 17:15 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.530 mASD
23 Aug 17:00 0.531 mASD

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Flood history near this gauge

Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2006 for the 9 flood areas linked to this gauge (nearest 0.2 km away).

3severe warnings 184flood warnings 296flood alerts

Most recent flood warning: 18 Dec 2025River Vyrnwy at Melverley

Year by year
YearSevereWarningsAlerts
2026 0 0 13
2025 0 12 12
2024 0 25 23
2023 0 31 21
2022 0 8 13
2021 0 10 21
2020 3 26 25
2019 0 18 18
2018 0 2 14
2017 0 0 13
2016 0 5 17
2015 0 10 15
2014 0 17 7
2013 0 8 14
2012 0 7 15
2011 0 5 8
2010 0 0 7
2009 0 0 11
2008 0 0 14
2007 0 0 14
2006 0 0 1

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 Montford flood history.

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Station Details

  • Monitoring Station: Montford
  • Watercourse: River Severn
  • Nearest Town: Montford
  • County: Shropshire
  • Coordinates: 52°43'28"N 2°52'20"W (52.724474, -2.872198)
  • Open in: Google Maps · Apple Maps (opens your maps app)
  • Date Opened: 28 Apr 1952
  • Status: Active
  • Station Type: River level station
  • Station Reference: 2005
  • EA Gauge ID: 2005-level-stage-i-15_min-mASD
  • Parameter: Level
  • Unit: mASD
  • Typical rise rate: 3 cm/hr (p95 sustained over 90 days)
  • Typical data delay: ~22 min (measured reading→publication lag)
  • Tidal: No
  • Lock / structure: No
  • Catchment Area: Severn Uplands
  • Typical Range: 0.287 – 4.800 mASD
  • Drainage Area: 2,025 km² upstream of this gauge
  • Flow Data: Available (m³/s) via EA Hydrology
  • EA Cross-check: 0.53 mASD (EA at 23 Aug 22:15)
  • Flow Archive: National River Flow Archive ↗

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

🌊 Fairly flashy Responds fairly quickly to rain, with moderate baseflow between events.

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
0.47
mixed response
Avg Annual Rainfall
1,250 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +7% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
0.4%
largely rural
Median Annual Flood
304 m³/s
QMED — typical yearly peak flow
Highest Recorded Flow
475 m³/s
21 Feb 2022
Flow-Duration Curve
mean 43.9415324.206.145% (high)% of days exceeded95% (low)
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.
Land Cover (2023)
Woodland 13%Grassland 74%Arable 7%Heath/scrub 4%Urban 2%Other 1%

Flow affected by: surface-water abstraction, reservoir influence, public water supply, effluent returns.

Photos

Gauging-station photographs from the National River Flow Archive (UKCEH).

Photos © NRFA / UKCEH & the measuring authority — shown at web resolution. Full gallery on the NRFA ↗

About this gauge

Velocity area station only until Oct 1994 when cross-path ultrasonic installed measuring flows to bankfull. Highly regulated catchment with limited naturalised flows available.

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The catchment

High relief headwaters. Valleys are broad bottomed with moderate slope and feature Boulder Clay, fluvial gravel and extensive washlands which slow response. Outcrop solid geology Ordovician and Silurian shales, grits and mudstones. Moorland, forestry, grazing, low grade agriculture.

The station

Velocity area station only until 1994 when cross-path ultrasonic installed measuring flows to bankfull. Fully contained (EA comment that it can bypass on left bank); motorised winch can gauge all floods since 1985 (earlier, right bank only). Very prone to weed growth; considerable variations recorded in summer stage discharge relations.

How it measures flow

Multiple peak flow ratings applied across period of record. Rating curve used to extract flows above bankfull as ultrasonic gauge underestimates them. Very prone to weed growth; much summer rating variability. High flows from US and gauging need reconciling.

Flow regime

Regulation from Vyrnwy and Clywedog and PWS abstractions have significant effect at low flows. Limited series of naturalised flows available.

The flow record

Full period of record peak flow data reviewed and released in October 2018 (WINFAP Files v7).

Descriptions from the National River Flow Archive (UKCEH). NRFA station record ↗

Gauge Details

How this gauging station is built and how long it has measured (NRFA / UKCEH).

Gauge type
Ultrasonic
Operating since
1953
Station datum
52.0 mAOD
Flow record
1953–2024 · 71 yrs · 100% complete
Peak-flow record
since 1952
Hydrometric area
54
Measured by
Environment Agency

Frequently asked questions

Is the River Severn at Montford flooding today?

The current level is 0.53m, which is within the typical range of 0.29 to 4.80m. Flooding is unlikely at this level.

Is the river level rising or falling at Montford?

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 Severn at Montford?

The typical range at this station is 0.29m to 4.80m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 4.80m 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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