Kings Bay, Site VI tidal current predictions

Now

Flood 0.8 ktToward NNW (327°)

Next slack

Fri 2:37 AMEDT

Next max flood

1.0 ktFri 11:14 AM

Next max ebb

1.3 ktFri 4:50 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward NNW (327°); below it the ebb, running out toward SE (140°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: slack 1:44 AM, ebb 1.4 kt 4:01 AM, slack 6:53 AM, flood 1.1 kt 10:12 AM, slack 2:21 PM, ebb 1.5 kt 4:39 PM, slack 8:05 PM, flood 0.9 kt 10:57 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.

• Measured, along the channel
• Predicted

A NOAA PORTS current meter, bin 15. Wind, river flow and storm surge push the real current off the prediction; the meter measures the difference.

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.

• Range E, LB 43, Cumberland SoundCurrent meter (NOAA PORTS)1.0 mi
• Stafford Island, west ofSubordinate current station1.5 mi
• Kings Bay, North Turning BasinCurrent meter (NOAA PORTS)2.1 mi
• Drum Point Island, Range D ChannelSubordinate current station2.1 mi
• Range A2, LB 29, Cumberland SoundCurrent meter (NOAA PORTS)4.4 mi
• Fort Clinch, 1.1 nmi NW ofSubordinate current station5.7 mi
• Range A, LB 23, St Marys RiverCurrent meter (NOAA PORTS)5.8 mi
• Quarantine Reach, 0.4nm W of Fort ClinchHarmonic current station6.1 mi

• Tide times at Kings Bay Msf Pier 0.8 mi
• Tide times at Kings Bay, Navy Base 1.2 mi
• Tide times at Seacamp Dock, Cumberland Island 2.3 mi
• Forecast for Kings Bay Base, GA
• Open the live map with tidal currents
• All tidal current stations in Georgia

Tidal current predictions and real-time current measurements (PORTS) from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station kb0501, bin 15: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.