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Standing Bear Lake water level today

Reservoir in Douglas, Nebraska · Tr Papillion Creek

1,104.48ft
336.65 m · gauge reading (local datum, not an elevation)
Measured · provisional
Much above normal for the dateSteady
vs full pool ?
▲ 0.48 ft
24 hours
▼ 0.09 ft
7 days
▲ 0.06 ft
30 days
▼ 0.17 ft
Normal for Oct 21 ?
1,103.64 ft

What this means

Standing Bear Lake is 0.48 ft above its full pool of 1,104.00 ft.

It is lower than on Oct 21 in 1 of the last 10 years.

The lake has risen 0.06 ft in 7 days and fallen 0.17 ft in 30 days.

Since 1989, the lowest daily level was 1,000.00 ft (May 1990) and the highest 1,113.04 ft (Dec 1990).

Standing Bear Lake level chart

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Measured Normal range for the date (middle 50% of past years) Full pool

Same date in past years

DateLevelvs today
Oct 21, 20251,103.90 ft▼ 0.58 ft
Oct 21, 20241,102.84 ft▼ 1.64 ft
Oct 21, 20231,082.34 ft▼ 22.14 ft
Oct 21, 20221,103.13 ft▼ 1.35 ft
Oct 21, 20211,104.03 ft▼ 0.45 ft
Oct 21, 20201,103.53 ft▼ 0.95 ft
Oct 21, 20191,103.60 ft▼ 0.88 ft
Oct 21, 20181,104.43 ft▼ 0.05 ft
Oct 21, 20171,104.53 ft▲ 0.05 ft
Oct 21, 20161,104.45 ft▼ 0.03 ft

Records & details

Highest
1,113.04 ft on Dec 3, 1990
Lowest
1,000.00 ft on May 12, 1990
Records from
1989 (37 years of daily data)
Full pool
1,104.00 ft (top of conservation pool, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)
Inflow
1.7 cfs (0.05 m³/s)
Outflow
10.2 cfs (0.29 m³/s)
Water temperature
Not measured here

Full history: yearly highs and lows, monthly averages →

Weather & wind

Tonight52°F · Mostly Clear
Wind S 2 mph
Thursday78°F · Sunny
Wind S 1 to 8 mph
Thursday Night57°F · Mostly Clear
Wind SSE 5 to 8 mph
Friday79°F · Sunny
Wind SSE 8 to 15 mph
Friday Night62°F · Mostly Cloudy
Wind SSE 13 mph
Saturday77°F · Partly Sunny
Wind S 8 to 12 mph

NOAA National Weather Service forecast for this lake's location, updated 33 min ago.

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