Water-supply lake run by the City of Corpus Christi · USGS station 08210500 · NWS gauge MTHT2
91.34 ft
water surface elevation (NGVD29), October 24, 2026 (daily high for the day)
Water stored
205,300 acre-feet
Highest daily high since 1999
94.81 ft (October 13, 2017)
Live 15-minute readings for this lake start shortly; until then the level shown is USGS's most recent daily high.
Lake Corpus Christi 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 Jim Wells 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.
NWS historic crests
Date
Crest
September 24, 1967
48.70 ft
September 20, 1919
41.00 ft
September 15, 2002
39.03 ft
July 12, 1942
38.38 ft
June 18, 1935
37.00 ft
July 12, 1932
35.30 ft
November 23, 1930
35.10 ft
January 24, 1968
33.80 ft
As published by the National Weather Service. They can differ slightly from USGS daily values: a crest is the single highest reading.
