Dalco Passage tidal current predictions

Now

Flood 0.3 ktToward the channel

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in; below it the ebb, running out. Times are Pacific Daylight Time.

• Small Craft Advisory Small Craft Advisory issued September 25 at 9:58PM PDT until September 25 at 11:00PM PDT by NWS Seattle WAUntil 11:00 PM
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  * WHAT...Southwest winds 15 to 25 kt. * WHERE...Puget Sound and Hood Canal. * WHEN...Until 11 PM PDT this evening. * IMPACTS...Conditions will be hazardous to small craft.

  A Small Craft Advisory means that wind speeds of 21 to 33 knots and/or seas 10 feet or higher are expected to produce hazardous wave conditions to small craft. Inexperienced mariners, especially those operating smaller vessels should avoid navigating in these 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.

• The Narrows, North end - midstreamHarmonic current station1.8 mi
• The Narrows, North End (west side)Harmonic current station2.1 mi
• Gig Harbor EntranceHarmonic current station2.2 mi
• Browns Point, 1.6 miles North ofHarmonic current station3.3 mi
• Point Richmond, East of, Colvos PassageHarmonic current station3.6 mi
• The Narrows, 0.3 miles North of BridgeHarmonic current station3.6 mi
• The Narrows, South end (midstream)Harmonic current station4.7 mi
• Hale Passage, East endHarmonic current station6.3 mi

• Tide times at Tahlequah, Neil Pt., Dalco Passage, Vashon I 1.0 mi
• Tide times at Gig Harbor 3.1 mi
• Tide times at Tacoma Narrows Bridge 3.9 mi
• Forecast for Gig Harbor, WA
• Open the live map with tidal currents
• All tidal current stations in Washington

Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station PUG1522, bin 12: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.