Quantico Creek entrance tidal current predictions

Now

Ebb 0.2 ktToward ESE (115°)

Next slack

Tue 4:06 AMEDT

Next max flood

0.3 ktTue 6:23 AM

Next max ebb

0.6 ktTue 12:17 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward NW (305°); below it the ebb, running out toward ESE (115°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: slack 3:11 AM, flood 0.4 kt 5:39 AM, slack 7:54 AM, ebb 0.4 kt 11:17 AM, slack 2:20 PM, flood 0.7 kt 5:43 PM, slack 8:41 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.

• QuanticoSubordinate current station0.8 mi
• Freestone Point, 2.3 miles east ofSubordinate current station6.8 mi
• Hallowing PointSubordinate current station12 mi
• Maryland PointSubordinate current station13 mi
• Persimmon PointSubordinate current station20 mi
• Potomac River Bridge, 0.4 mile south ofSubordinate current station20 mi
• Jones Point, AlexandriaSubordinate current station23 mi

• Tide times at Quantico 0.6 mi
• Tide times at Liverpool Point 4.8 mi
• Tide times at Indian Head 7.5 mi
• Forecast for Triangle, VA
• Open the live map with tidal currents
• All tidal current stations in Virginia

Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station ACT5886, bin 1: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.