Gauge Description:

This is a brand-new gage, and we don't yet know what a reasonable minimum is. 300 cfs isn't really a runnable level, corresponding to -0.5 feet on the white Union Street gage. I know that, at 1 PM on 5/31/03, the river was running spankingly high at 1.5 feet. The USGS tells me that it was kicking 1770 cfs at that time--lotta watta for a small creekbed!

The physical gauge is on the Union St. Bridge, upstream river left. (See description below for directions.) 0.0' is minimum; at 1.0', it's getting pushy. I've run it as high as 1.8', but it was very pushy.
If the above gage goes down, sometimes you can get an idea of whether or not it's running by comparing the upstream Cuyahoga at Portage with the downstream Cuyahoga at Independence gauges. That's the basis for the very approximate virtual Tinker's Creek Gage, which is now rendered obsolete by our friends at the USGS. If Independence isn't running at least a couple thousand cfs greater than Portage, you can probably forget about it.
New: check the AFWS Rain Gage -- Cuyahoga County for the last day's rain. A look at Solon (8312) will tell how much rain is heading toward Bedford. We have, as yet, no predictive model for Tinker's flow. I figure you need an inch or better in the recent 24-hour period, but that's mostly a SWAG. If the ground is wet, and the trees aren't drinking yet, half an inch can be enough.