Daniel Island Bend tidal current predictions

Now

Flood 0.5 ktToward NNW (335°)

Next slack

9:59 PMEDT

Next max flood

1.3 kt7:01 PM

Next max ebb

2.9 ktSun 12:59 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward NNW (335°); below it the ebb, running out toward SSE (153°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: ebb 2.8 kt 12:19 AM, slack 3:38 AM, flood 1.3 kt 6:39 AM, slack 9:40 AM, ebb 2.8 kt 12:39 PM, slack 3:59 PM, flood 1.3 kt 7:01 PM, slack 9:59 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.

• Daniel Island Reach, Buoy 47ASubordinate current station1.1 mi
• Shipyard Creek entranceSubordinate current station1.3 mi
• Daniel Island Reach, Buoy 48Subordinate current station1.5 mi
• Drum Island, 0.2 mile aboveSubordinate current station2.0 mi
• North CharlestonSubordinate current station2.0 mi
• Rathall Creek entranceSubordinate current station2.1 mi
• Wando River Upper Reach, Turning BasinSubordinate current station2.2 mi
• Drum Island Reach, marker 45Subordinate current station2.3 mi

• Tide times at Clouter Creek, south entrance 1.0 mi
• Tide times at Shipyard Creek, 0.8 mile above entrance 1.6 mi
• Tide times at Hobcaw Point 2.5 mi
• Forecast for North Charleston, SC
• Open the live map with tidal currents
• All tidal current stations in South Carolina

Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station ACT6796, bin 1: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.