Seaboard Coast Line RR, Pinner Point tidal current predictions

Now

Flood 0.3 ktToward SE (140°)

Next slack

10:08 PMEDT

Next max flood

0.5 kt7:05 PM

Next max ebb

0.6 ktSun 1:05 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward SE (140°); below it the ebb, running out toward WNW (290°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: ebb 0.5 kt 12:34 AM, slack 3:36 AM, flood 0.6 kt 6:49 AM, slack 10:16 AM, ebb 0.5 kt 1:05 PM, slack 4:14 PM, flood 0.5 kt 7:05 PM, slack 10:08 PM.

• Small Craft Advisory Small Craft Advisory issued September 26 at 3:54PM EDT until September 28 at 1:00AM EDT by NWS Wakefield VAUntil Mon 1:00 AM
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  * WHAT...North to northwest winds 15 to 20 kt with gusts up to 30 kt and waves 2 to 4 ft. * WHERE...James River from JRB to HRBT, Including the Elizabeth River. * WHEN...Until 1 AM EDT Monday. * 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.

• Lamberts PointSubordinate current station1.4 mi
• West Norfolk Bridge, Western BranchSubordinate current station1.5 mi
• Berkley, Southern BranchSubordinate current station2.1 mi
• Berkley Bridge, Eastern BranchSubordinate current station2.2 mi
• Craney Island ReachHarmonic current station2.4 mi
• Craney IslandSubordinate current station2.6 mi
• Chesapeake, Southern BranchSubordinate current station3.9 mi
• Norfolk and Western RR. Bridge, E BranchSubordinate current station4.3 mi

• Tide times at Norfolk 1.2 mi
• Tide times at Craney Island Light 2.5 mi
• Tide times at Lafayette River 2.8 mi
• Forecast for Norfolk, 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 ACT5246, bin 1: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.