Morgans Point tidal current predictions

Now

Ebb 0.5 ktToward S (172°)

Next slack

Sat 3:56 AMCDT

Next max flood

0.1 ktSat 5:54 AM

Next max ebb

0.5 kt11:34 PM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward N (354°); below it the ebb, running out toward S (172°). Times are Central Daylight Time. Today: slack 3:08 AM, flood 0.3 kt 5:41 AM, slack 8:02 AM, ebb 0.4 kt 11:42 AM, slack 4:14 PM, slack 7:26 PM, ebb 0.5 kt 11:34 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.

• Fred Hartman Br., Houston Ship ChannelCurrent meter (NOAA PORTS)2.7 mi
• Houston Ship Channel (Red Fish Bar)Subordinate current station14 mi
• Houston Channel, W of Port BolivarSubordinate current station25 mi

• Tide times at Morgans Point, Barbours Cut 0.2 mi
• Tide times at Umbrella Point, Trinity Bay 6.8 mi
• Tide times at Lynchburg Landing, San Jacinto River 8.1 mi
• Forecast for La Porte, TX
• Open the live map with tidal currents
• All tidal current stations in Texas

Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station g02010, bin 4: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.