McQueen Island Cut tidal current predictions

Now

Flood 0.6 ktToward WSW (251°)

Next slack

8:15 AMEDT

Next max flood

0.7 kt3:34 PM

Next max ebb

1.4 kt9:33 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward WSW (251°); below it the ebb, running out toward ENE (69°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: slack 12:32 AM, flood 0.7 kt 3:07 AM, slack 8:15 AM, ebb 1.4 kt 9:33 AM, slack 1:00 PM, flood 0.7 kt 3:34 PM, slack 8:48 PM, ebb 1.3 kt 10:04 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.

• Fort Pulaski, 4.8 miles aboveSubordinate current station0.9 mi
• Wilmington R. ent., south channelSubordinate current station1.2 mi
• Elba Island Cut, NE of, Savannah RiverSubordinate current station1.4 mi
• Oatland Island, north tipSubordinate current station1.5 mi
• Elba Island, NE of, Savannah RiverSubordinate current station1.8 mi
• South Channel, western endSubordinate current station2.4 mi
• Elba Island, west of, Savannah RiverSubordinate current station2.8 mi
• Fort Pulaski, 1.8 miles aboveSubordinate current station3.5 mi

• Tide times at North entrance 0.8 mi
• Tide times at Fort Jackson 3.1 mi
• Tide times at Fields Cut, Wright River 3.5 mi
• Forecast for Whitemarsh Island, GA
• Open the live map with tidal currents
• All tidal current stations in Georgia

Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station ACT7371, bin 1: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.