Gulf Coast Gauges

Chipola River near Wewahitchka (Lands Landing) water level

NWS gauge WWCF1 · Northwest Florida Water Management District · Gulf County · Panama City

11.17 ft

stage, NAVD88 · Nov 3, 2026 at 10:00 PM CST · 65 minutes ago

Below NWS minor flood stage
10.8 ft
NWS action stage
20.0 ft
NWS minor flood stage
22.0 ft
NWS moderate flood stage
23.5 ft
NWS major flood stage
26.5 ft
Highest NWS crest
23.42 ft (March 11, 2020)
Usual range
11.21 to 16.31 ft
Highest since October 4, 2026
16.81 ft
No National Weather Service alert covering Gulf County was active when this page was generated (Nov 3, 2026 at 11:05 PM CST). Alerts are issued and expire at any time; the current list is at alerts.weather.gov.

Last 7 days

11.1 13.7 16.3 Oct 28 Oct 29 Oct 30 Oct 31 Nov 1 Nov 2 Nov 3

Hourly averages of the readings. The shaded band is this gauge's usual range: the middle 80% of its readings since October 4, 2026.

How to read this gauge

The number is the water surface elevation in feet on NAVD88, the current national vertical datum: a height above a fixed survey reference, not a depth. Readings on different datums can't be compared directly.

The flood stages are the National Weather Service's references for this location, on the same scale as the reading. They describe the gauge, not any particular street or property.

Readings the NWS marks out of service are left out, and so is any single reading more than 2 ft from the readings either side of it, which is a sensor error rather than water; a newest reading that far from the one before waits for the next to agree.

Northwest Florida Water Management District runs this gauge; the National Weather Service publishes its readings and its flood stages, which is where this site reads them.

NWS historic crests

DateCrestAbove minor flood stage
March 11, 202023.42 ft1.4 ft
December 31, 201523.19 ft1.2 ft
February 26, 202021.80 ft—
September 23, 202020.88 ft—
February 14, 202020.84 ft—
April 6, 201620.15 ft—

The highest crests the National Weather Service lists for this gauge, as published, on the same scale as the reading.

Daily highs and lows since October 4, 2026

10.4 13.6 16.8 2026-10-04 – 2026-11-03 · bars are daily low to high

Other NWS-published gauges in Panama City

GaugeStageDatumNWS flood stageUpdated
Bear Creek at US 23115.41 ftNAVD887.6 ft below minor flood stage65 minutes ago
Chipola River at Scott's Ferry15.99 ftNAVD886.0 ft below minor flood stage65 minutes ago
Cooks Bayou at Parker Branch0.94 ftMHHW1.1 ft below minor flood stage83 minutes ago
Deer Point Lake at Deer Point Dam1.09 ftNAVD885.4 ft below minor flood stage65 minutes ago
East Bay at Callaway Bayou0.93 ftMHHW1.1 ft below minor flood stage71 minutes ago
East Bay at Watson Bayou Pier0.78 ftMHHW2.2 ft below minor flood stage77 minutes ago
Intracoastal Waterway at White City (Gulf County)-0.42 ftMHHW2.4 ft below minor flood stage65 minutes ago
Parker City Pier at Dupont Bridge0.89 ftMHHW1.1 ft below minor flood stage89 minutes ago
Parker at East Bay1.00 ftMHHW1.0 ft below minor flood stage77 minutes ago
Pearl Bayou in East Bay0.94 ftMHHW1.1 ft below minor flood stage77 minutes ago
Pelican Point at Cooks Bayou0.91 ftMHHW1.1 ft below minor flood stage83 minutes ago
Sandy Creek at Sandy Creek Boat Ramp1.85 ftNAVD882.1 ft below minor flood stage77 minutes ago
St Joseph Bay at Port St Joe0.61 ftMHHW1.9 ft below minor flood stage77 minutes ago
St Joseph's Bay at Richardson Hammock0.60 ftMHHW1.9 ft below minor flood stage71 minutes ago
Tide Station at Mexico Beach0.99 ftMHHW2.0 ft below minor flood stage69 minutes ago
Tide Station at St Andrews State Park Pier0.50 ftMHHW2.0 ft below minor flood stage77 minutes ago

Download the readings

chipola-river-near-wewahitchka-lands-landing.csv (CSV): every reading from the last 90 days, 2,815 rows, with time in UTC and local time, and the reading in feet on NAVD88.

chipola-river-near-wewahitchka-lands-landing-daily.csv (CSV): the low and high of every day since October 4, 2026.

Source. Readings from Northwest Florida Water Management District, as published by the National Weather Service, which also sets the flood stages and lists the crests. The NWS name for this gauge is “Chipola River near Wewahitchka (Lands Landing)”. Recent readings are provisional and can be revised. This site is not affiliated with either.