Gulf Coast Gauges

Alabama River below Claiborne Lock and Dam near Monroeville water level

USGS gauge 02428401 · Monroe County · Mobile Bay · NWS gauge CLBA1

5.53 ft

gage height, Oct 23, 2026 at 2:45 PM CDT · 3 hours ago

Highest since 1998 (USGS)
53.69 ft (January 2, 2016)
Usual range
5.46 to 9.51 ft

USGS marks recent readings as provisional: they can be revised after review.

No National Weather Service alert covering Monroe County was active when this page was generated (Oct 23, 2026 at 5:50 PM CDT). Alerts are issued and expire at any time; the current list is at alerts.weather.gov.

Last 7 days

4.7 7.1 9.5 Oct 17 Oct 18 Oct 19 Oct 20 Oct 21 Oct 22 Oct 23

Hourly averages of USGS readings. The shaded band is this gauge's usual range: the middle 80% of its readings since September 11, 2026.

How to read this gauge

Gage height is the height of the water surface above the gauge's zero point. This gauge's zero is set at 0 ft NGVD29, so its gage height is the water surface elevation above that datum. It is not a water depth.

Daily highs and lows since September 11, 2026

4.6 8.3 11.9 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 1972

In 29 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 1998), the highest peak was 53.69 ft on January 2, 2016. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 11.89 ft on October 11, 2026.

8 23 38 54 69 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 Water year 1972: 58.30 ft on January 18, 1972 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1973: 57.20 ft on April 6, 1973 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1974: 51.20 ft on January 6, 1974 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1975: 59.00 ft on February 22, 1975 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1976: 61.20 ft on April 6, 1976 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1977: 59.00 ft on April 8, 1977 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1978: 55.20 ft on January 31, 1978 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1979: 61.20 ft on March 12, 1979 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1980: 62.00 ft on April 3, 1980 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1981: 53.80 ft on April 6, 1981 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1982: 56.90 ft on February 9, 1982 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1983: 60.10 ft on April 15, 1983 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1984: 56.80 ft on December 12, 1983 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1985: 51.40 ft on February 10, 1985 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1986: 47.60 ft on March 16, 1986 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1987: 54.20 ft on March 5, 1987 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1988: 47.20 ft on January 23, 1988 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1989: 56.80 ft on June 27, 1989 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1990: 64.60 ft on March 25, 1990 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1991: 51.50 ft on February 26, 1991 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1992: 50.10 ft on February 20, 1992 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1993: 54.80 ft on January 25, 1993 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1994: 48.20 ft on April 20, 1994 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1995: 54.00 ft on March 13, 1995 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1996: 58.50 ft on February 8, 1996 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1997: 45.60 ft on March 6, 1997 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1998: 51.00 ft on March 15, 1998 Water year 1999: 46.72 ft on February 4, 1999 Water year 2000: 42.48 ft on April 9, 2000 Water year 2001: 48.69 ft on March 8, 2001 Water year 2002: 38.45 ft on January 29, 2002 Water year 2003: 47.59 ft on July 8, 2003 Water year 2004: 41.53 ft on September 20, 2004 Water year 2005: 52.54 ft on April 7, 2005 Water year 2006: 39.72 ft on February 28, 2006 Water year 2007: 35.56 ft on November 18, 2006 Water year 2008: 36.63 ft on August 29, 2008 Water year 2009: 50.49 ft on April 1, 2009 Water year 2010: 49.78 ft on December 22, 2009 Water year 2011: 47.05 ft on March 14, 2011 Water year 2012: 36.03 ft on March 6, 2012 Water year 2013: 51.36 ft on February 16, 2013 Water year 2014: 50.30 ft on April 13, 2014 Water year 2015: 42.20 ft on January 9, 2015 Water year 2016: 53.69 ft on January 2, 2016 Water year 2017: 48.81 ft on June 27, 2017 Water year 2018: 42.16 ft on February 16, 2018 Water year 2019: 50.80 ft on January 4, 2019 Water year 2020: 53.66 ft on February 25, 2020 Water year 2021: 45.64 ft on April 3, 2021 Water year 2022: 46.84 ft on February 9, 2022 Water year 2023: 45.98 ft on March 31, 2023 Water year 2024: 47.26 ft on February 17, 2024 Water year 2025: 46.96 ft on April 12, 2025 Water year 2026: 36.92 ft on June 22, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 11.89 ft on October 11, 2026 2016 2020 2005

Each dot is the highest gage height of a water year (October to September), from the USGS annual peak record, with recent years USGS has not published yet taken from its 15-minute readings and this site's own; hover a dot for its date. Dashed lines are NWS flood stages. Grey hollow dots (26 years) were measured on a different datum or at a different site, or before the gauge's datum last changed, so they are shown but not compared.

Download the readings

alabama-river-below-claiborne-lock-and-dam-near-monroeville.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 4,048 rows, with time in UTC and Central, gage height in feet, and the USGS approval status.

Source. Gage height from the U.S. Geological Survey. This site is not affiliated with either agency.