Sabine Pass, USCG Base tidal current predictions

Now

Ebb 0.2 ktToward SE (146°)

Next slack

1:43 AMEDT

Next max flood

0.4 kt4:23 AM

Next max ebb

0.5 kt10:56 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward NW (323°); below it the ebb, running out toward SE (146°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: slack 1:43 AM, flood 0.4 kt 4:23 AM, slack 6:57 AM, ebb 0.5 kt 10:56 AM, slack 2:02 PM, flood 0.7 kt 5:17 PM, slack 9:48 PM, ebb 0.1 kt 11:51 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 30. 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.

• Sabine Pass, Cheniere LNGCurrent meter (NOAA PORTS)1.0 mi
• Sabine Front Range, Point Hunt, NW ofCurrent meter (NOAA PORTS)2.4 mi
• Texas Point, 1.7 miles SSE ofSubordinate current station6.0 mi
• Port ArthurCurrent meter (NOAA PORTS)10 mi
• Rainbow BridgeCurrent meter (NOAA PORTS)17 mi

• Tide times at Sabine Pass 0.0 mi
• Tide times at Texas Point, Sabine Pass 3.2 mi
• Tide times at East Sabine Lake 5.8 mi
• Forecast for Port Arthur, TX
• Open the live map with tidal currents
• All tidal current stations in Texas

Tidal current predictions and real-time current measurements (PORTS) from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station sn0201, bin 30: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.