Turn Point tidal current predictions

Now

Flood 4.1 ktToward SW (220°)

Next slack

Sat 1:56 AMAKDT

Next max flood

5.0 kt11:18 PM

Next max ebb

4.9 ktSat 5:43 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward SW (220°); below it the ebb, running out toward NE (40°). Times are Alaska Daylight Time. Today: slack 1:17 AM, ebb 4.5 kt 5:11 AM, slack 7:57 AM, flood 5.2 kt 11:02 AM, slack 1:46 PM, ebb 4.6 kt 5:32 PM, slack 8:17 PM, flood 5.0 kt 11:18 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.

• Wrangell Narrows (off Petersburg)Harmonic current station0.9 mi
• Prolewy RocksSubordinate current station1.7 mi
• Blunt PointSubordinate current station2.0 mi
• Mountain PointSubordinate current station5.3 mi
• Green PointSubordinate current station7.6 mi
• Vexation Point, Woody IslandSubordinate current station11 mi
• Anchor PointSubordinate current station12 mi
• South LedgeHarmonic current station13 mi

• Tide times at Turn Point 0.6 mi
• Tide times at Petersburg 1.1 mi
• Tide times at Brown Cove 8.7 mi
• Forecast for Petersburg, AK
• Open the live map with tidal currents
• All tidal current stations in Alaska

Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station PCT3796, bin 1: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.