Quantico tidal current predictions

Now

Ebb 0.6 ktToward SSW (200°)

Next slack

Sat 1:51 AMEDT

Next max flood

0.7 ktSat 4:39 AM

Next max ebb

0.9 ktSat 10:35 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward NNE (20°); below it the ebb, running out toward SSW (200°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: slack 12:58 AM, flood 0.7 kt 3:55 AM, slack 6:32 AM, ebb 0.9 kt 10:01 AM, slack 1:21 PM, flood 0.8 kt 4:19 PM, slack 6:58 PM, ebb 0.9 kt 10:27 PM.

• Small Craft Advisory Small Craft Advisory issued September 25 at 5:55PM EDT until September 26 at 6:00PM EDT by NWS Baltimore MD/Washington DCUntil Sat 6:00 PM
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  * WHAT...North winds 15 to 20 kt with gusts up to 30 kt. * WHERE...Tidal Potomac River from Key Bridge to Cobb Island MD, Chesapeake Bay north of Pooles Island MD, and Patapsco River including Baltimore Harbor. * WHEN...Until 6 PM EDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Conditions will be hazardous to small craft.

  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.

• Quantico Creek entranceSubordinate current station0.8 mi
• Freestone Point, 2.3 miles east ofSubordinate current station6.7 mi
• Hallowing PointSubordinate current station12 mi
• Maryland PointSubordinate current station13 mi
• Persimmon PointSubordinate current station19 mi
• Potomac River Bridge, 0.4 mile south ofSubordinate current station19 mi
• Jones Point, AlexandriaSubordinate current station23 mi
• Port RoyalSubordinate current station24 mi

• Tide times at Quantico 0.6 mi
• Tide times at Liverpool Point 4.3 mi
• Tide times at Indian Head 7.4 mi
• Forecast for Cherry Hill, VA
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• All tidal current stations in Virginia

Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station ACT5881, bin 1: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.