Colorado River (TX) at Matagorda water level

Name: Colorado River (TX) at Matagorda stage (NWS MRCT2)
Creator: Lower Colorado River Authority
License: https://gulfcoastgauges.com/about/#using-the-data

NWS gauge MRCT2 · Lower Colorado River Authority · Matagorda County · Victoria and Matagorda Bay

2.39 ft

stage above a datum the NWS does not state · Nov 3, 2026 at 10:00 PM CST · 65 minutes ago

Below NWS minor flood stage: 6.4 ft
NWS action stage: 4.8 ft
NWS minor flood stage: 8.8 ft
NWS moderate flood stage: 9.6 ft
NWS major flood stage: 10.4 ft
Usual range: 1.69 to 2.86 ft
Highest since October 4, 2026: 3.18 ft

No National Weather Service alert covering Matagorda 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

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 stage in feet on this gauge's own scale, as the NWS publishes it. The NWS gives no datum for it, so it is not a depth and can't be compared with other gauges.

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.

Lower Colorado River Authority runs this gauge; the National Weather Service publishes its readings and its flood stages, which is where this site reads them.

Daily highs and lows since October 4, 2026

Other NWS-published gauges in Victoria and Matagorda Bay

Gauge	Stage	Datum	NWS flood stage	Updated
San Bernard River at East Bernard	6.12 ft	—	10.9 ft below minor flood stage	65 minutes ago

Download the readings

colorado-river-tx-at-matagorda.csv (CSV): every reading from the last 90 days, 717 rows, with time in UTC and local time, and the reading in feet on a datum the NWS does not state.

colorado-river-tx-at-matagorda-daily.csv (CSV): the low and high of every day since October 4, 2026.

Source. Readings from Lower Colorado River Authority, as published by the National Weather Service, which also sets the flood stages and lists the crests. The NWS name for this gauge is “Colorado River (TX) at Matagorda”. Recent readings are provisional and can be revised. This site is not affiliated with either.