Turning Basin tidal current predictions

Now

Flood 0.6 ktToward NNW (327°)

Next slack

9:35 AMEDT

Next max flood

1.4 kt6:44 AM

Next max ebb

1.3 kt12:32 PM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward NNW (327°); below it the ebb, running out toward SE (144°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: ebb 1.3 kt 12:12 AM, slack 3:54 AM, flood 1.4 kt 6:44 AM, slack 9:35 AM, ebb 1.3 kt 12:32 PM, slack 4:15 PM, flood 1.4 kt 7:06 PM, slack 9:54 PM.

• Small Craft Advisory Small Craft Advisory issued September 26 at 2:28AM EDT until September 27 at 2:00AM EDT by NWS Newport/Morehead City NCUntil Sun 2:00 AM
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  * WHAT...Northwest winds 10 to 20 kt with gusts up to 25 kt and seas 5 to 8 ft. * WHERE...The coastal waters from Ocracoke Inlet to Surf City. * WHEN...Until 2 AM EDT Sunday. * IMPACTS...Conditions will be hazardous to small craft. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Moderate winds and elevated seas will continue to impact the coastal and offshore waters as a Nor'easter moves slowly north off the Mid-Atlantic Coast.

  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.

• Morehead City, RR. bridge, N ofSubordinate current station0.7 mi
• Tombstone Point, 0.1 mile E ofSubordinate current station0.8 mi
• Radio Island, E ofSubordinate current station0.8 mi
• Sugarloaf Island, 0.2 mile S ofSubordinate current station1.1 mi
• Newport Marshes, SE ofSubordinate current station1.4 mi
• Fort Macon, 0.2 mile NE ofSubordinate current station1.4 mi
• Newport Marshes, E ofSubordinate current station1.9 mi
• Morehead City, S ofSubordinate current station2.2 mi

• Tide times at Morehead City 0.4 mi
• Tide times at Morehead City Harbor 1.1 mi
• Tide times at Fort Macon, USCG Station 1.2 mi
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Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station ACT6351, bin 1: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.