Gulf Coast Gauges

Lake Texana water level

Water-supply lake run by the Lavaca-Navidad River Authority · USGS station 08164525 · NWS gauge LTXT2

41.69 ft

water surface elevation (NAVD88), October 25, 2026 (daily high for the day)

Highest daily high since 2006
44.49 ft (October 9, 2009)

Live 15-minute readings for this lake start shortly; until then the level shown is USGS's most recent daily high.

Lake Texana is a water-supply lake, run by the Lavaca-Navidad River Authority. 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 NAVD88 (a fixed survey reference), not a water depth. USGS publishes no storage figure for this lake.

No National Weather Service alert covering Jackson 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

41.7 41.9 42.2 Oct 19 Oct 20 Oct 21 Oct 22 Oct 23 Oct 24 Oct 25

USGS daily highs for the most recent days; hourly readings replace this once they start.

Highest level each year since 2007

41 42 43 44 45 2010 2015 2020 2025 Water year 2007: 44.29 ft on March 31, 2007 Water year 2008: 44.12 ft on October 22, 2007 Water year 2009: 41.69 ft on October 1, 2008 Water year 2010: 44.49 ft on October 9, 2009 Water year 2011: 43.77 ft on October 1, 2010 Water year 2012: 44.18 ft on July 18, 2012 Water year 2013: 44.45 ft on May 2, 2013 Water year 2014: 44.31 ft on May 28, 2014 Water year 2015: 44.47 ft on June 17, 2015 Water year 2016: 44.43 ft on March 19, 2016 Water year 2017: 44.27 ft on February 20, 2017 Water year 2018: 44.02 ft on June 26, 2018 Water year 2019: 44.15 ft on June 5, 2019 Water year 2020: 44.25 ft on September 22, 2020 Water year 2021: 44.40 ft on May 18, 2021 Water year 2022: 44.38 ft on February 12, 2022 Water year 2023: 44.28 ft on April 28, 2023 Water year 2024: 44.25 ft on February 3, 2024 Water year 2025: 44.29 ft on June 14, 2025 Water year 2026: 44.09 ft on July 15, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 42.31 ft on October 5, 2026 2010 2015 2013

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

DateCrest
November 27, 200144.74 ft

As published by the National Weather Service. They can differ slightly from USGS daily values: a crest is the single highest reading.

In past storms

StormHighestDayRise
October 1–2, 202642.31 ftOctober 5, 20261.1 ft

From USGS daily highs across each storm's window.

Download

lake-texana.csv (CSV): the USGS daily record for Lake Texana, one row per day with the daily high elevation.

Source. Elevation and storage from the U.S. Geological Survey; NWS references from the National Water Prediction Service. Recent USGS values are provisional.