Water-supply lake run by the City of Corpus Christi · USGS station 08206900
190.59 ft
water surface elevation (NGVD29), October 24, 2026 (daily high for the day)
Water stored
140,700 acre-feet
Highest daily high since 1999
223.49 ft (September 12, 2002)
Live 15-minute readings for this lake start shortly; until then the level shown is USGS's most recent daily high.
Choke Canyon Reservoir is a water-supply lake, run by the City of Corpus Christi. It is normally held near a steady level, rising after heavy rain and falling in dry spells.
Elevation is the height of the lake surface above NGVD29 (a fixed survey reference), not a water depth. Storage is USGS's estimate of the water held, in acre-feet (one acre-foot covers an acre a foot deep).
No National Weather Service alert covering Live Oak County was active when this page was generated (Oct 25, 2026 at 6:35 PM CDT). Alerts are issued and expire at any time; the current list is at alerts.weather.gov.
Last 7 days
USGS daily highs for the most recent days; hourly readings replace this once they start.
Highest level each year since 2000
Each dot is the highest USGS daily high of a water year (October to September); the hollow dot is this year so far. Dashed lines are NWS references. Hover a dot for its date.
choke-canyon-reservoir.csv (CSV): the USGS daily record for Choke Canyon Reservoir, one row per day with the daily high elevation and daily average storage.
Source. Elevation and storage from the U.S. Geological Survey. Recent USGS values are provisional.
