Kingsley Creek, highway bridge tidal current predictions

Now

SlackTurning

Next slack

10:23 PMEDT

Next max flood

1.3 ktSat 7:49 AM

Next max ebb

1.7 ktSat 1:23 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward SSE (150°); below it the ebb, running out toward NNW (330°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: ebb 1.6 kt 12:40 AM, slack 4:42 AM, flood 1.2 kt 7:18 AM, slack 10:03 AM, ebb 1.7 kt 1:03 PM, slack 5:04 PM, flood 1.2 kt 7:36 PM, slack 10:23 PM.

• Small Craft Advisory Small Craft Advisory issued September 25 at 1:46PM EDT until September 26 at 11:00AM EDT by NWS Jacksonville FLUntil Sat 11:00 AM
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  * WHAT...North winds 15 to 25 kt with gusts up to 30 kt and seas 7 to 10 ft. * WHERE...Northeast Florida coastal waters from Fernandina Beach FL to Flagler Beach FL out to 20 NM. * WHEN...Until 11 AM EDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Conditions will be hazardous to small craft.

  Inexperienced mariners, especially those operating smaller vessels, should avoid navigating in hazardous conditions.

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.

• Fernandina Beach, City Front Reach, Amelia RiverHarmonic current station3.1 mi
• Old Fernandina, Amelia River, Old Town ReachHarmonic current station4.2 mi
• Quarantine Reach, 0.4nm W of Fort ClinchHarmonic current station5.5 mi
• Fort Clinch, 1.1 nmi NW ofSubordinate current station5.6 mi
• Range A, LB 23, St Marys RiverCurrent meter (NOAA PORTS)5.9 mi
• St. Mary's River EntranceHarmonic current station6.0 mi
• South Amelia River, off Walker CreekSubordinate current station6.4 mi
• Nassau River, SW of Mesa MarshSubordinate current station6.6 mi

• Tide times at Kingsley Creek, RR. bridge 0.5 mi
• Tide times at Lofton, Lanceford Creek 2.5 mi
• Tide times at Amelia City, South Amelia River 3.2 mi
• Forecast for Fernandina Beach, FL
• Open the live map with tidal currents
• All tidal current stations in Florida

Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station ACT7921, bin 1: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.