Technical Abstract: The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Southeast Watershed Research Laboratory initiated a watershed research program at the Little River Experimental Watershed in 1967. Continuous rainfall measurement across the watershed began at that time. Soil moisture measurements were added to twenty-nine of the rainfall sites from 2001 to 2005. Additional climatic instrumentation was added to three sites in 2004. The research quantifies critical information related to long-term and seasonal climatic relationships, hydrologic budgets for the region, water quality studies, and natural resource planning. Rainfall data from the network have been used to evaluate storm characteristics, climatic patterns, and long-term averages for the region. Soil moisture data have been used to examine large scale patterns across the region and for comparison to remotely sensed data. The average annual watershed weighted precipitation for the 334 km2 Little River Experimental Watershed for the period from 1972 to 2005 was 1223 mm with a coefficient of variation of 13.8%. The maximum annual precipitation observed during the same period was 1555 mm, which occurred in 1994, while the minimum was 884 mm, occurring in 1999. The maximum watershed weighted daily precipitation that has been observed was135 mm. The maximum daily precipitation that has been recorded on any individual gauge was 197 mm. The maximum five-minute precipitation recorded within the watershed was 22.9 mm, or an intensity of 274 mm hr-1, observed on August 9, 1981. All data are available on the SEWRL anonymous ftp site (ftp://www.tiftonars.org/).