Point Lockwood tidal current predictions

Now

Flood 2.4 ktToward N (0°)

Next slack

Sat 1:31 AMAKDT

Next max flood

3.5 ktSat 11:09 AM

Next max ebb

3.8 ktSat 5:18 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward N (0°); below it the ebb, running out toward S (180°). Times are Alaska Daylight Time. Today: slack 12:52 AM, ebb 3.5 kt 4:46 AM, slack 7:32 AM, flood 3.3 kt 10:37 AM, slack 1:21 PM, ebb 3.6 kt 5:07 PM, slack 7:52 PM, flood 3.2 kt 10:53 PM.

None right now. The National Weather Service issues small craft advisories, gale and storm warnings, special marine warnings, dense fog advisories and coastal flood products for water like this.

The flood is the tidal current running in from the sea, the ebb the current running back out. Slack water is the short turn between them, when the current is weakest: the time to cross a strong channel, anchor, or dive. Slack in a channel is not the time of high or low tide; it can come hours after.

Speeds are knots along the channel's main axis, and directions are degrees true toward which the water flows, as NOAA prints its tables. A current against the wind stands the waves up steep and close together.

Predictions are astronomical: the moon and the sun, not the weather. Strong wind, river flow after heavy rain and storm surge all change the real current. This is a subordinate station: NOAA predicts it from a nearby harmonic station by fixed corrections to the times and speeds of its slack waters and maxima, so the curve between them is less exact.

• Point DeceptionSubordinate current station1.6 mi
• Point AlexanderSubordinate current station3.1 mi
• Spike RockSubordinate current station3.2 mi
• South LedgeHarmonic current station4.5 mi
• Anchor PointSubordinate current station5.9 mi
• Vexation Point, Woody IslandSubordinate current station7.2 mi
• Vichnefski Rock LightHarmonic current station7.9 mi
• Green PointSubordinate current station10.0 mi

• Tide times at Point Lockwood, Woewodski Island 0.2 mi
• Tide times at Beecher Pass 2.9 mi
• Tide times at Anchor Point 5.9 mi
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Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station PCT3751, bin 1: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.