Gulf Coast Gauges

Apalachicola R.ab Chipola Cutoff near Wewahitchka water level

USGS gauge 02358754 · Gulf County · Panama City

14.50 ft

gage height, Oct 23, 2026 at 2:15 PM CDT · 3 hours ago

Highest since 1956 (USGS)
25.71 ft (March 14, 2024)
Usual range
12.26 to 18.00 ft

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

No National Weather Service alert covering Gulf County was active when this page was generated (Oct 23, 2026 at 5:05 PM CDT). Alerts are issued and expire at any time; the current list is at alerts.weather.gov.

Last 7 days

12.3 15.1 18.0 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

12.1 16.1 20.0 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 1956

In 27 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 1956), the highest peak was 25.71 ft on March 14, 2024. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 19.99 ft on October 13, 2026, higher than the annual peak in 23 of 27 years.

10 14 19 23 27 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 Water year 1956: 11.89 ft on March 23, 1956 Water year 1957: 13.01 ft on April 12, 1957 Water year 1966: 14.25 ft on March 10, 1966 Water year 1967: 12.53 ft on January 7, 1967 Water year 1968: 11.60 ft on March 21, 1968 Water year 1969: 11.81 ft on April 24, 1969 Water year 1970: 12.87 ft on March 27, 1970 Water year 1971: 13.96 ft on March 9, 1971 Water year 1972: 13.13 ft on January 18, 1972 Water year 1973: 14.23 ft on April 5, 1973 Water year 1974: 11.75 ft on February 13, 1974 Water year 1975: 14.18 ft on April 19, 1975 Water year 1976: 11.38 ft on March 29, 1976 Water year 1977: 11.78 ft on March 12, 1977 Water year 1978: 14.63 ft on January 31, 1978 Water year 1979: 12.99 ft on March 1, 1979 Water year 1980: 13.51 ft on April 4, 1980 Water year 1984: 12.08 ft on March 9, 1984 Water year 1989: 11.32 ft on June 26, 1989 Water year 1990: 15.00 ft on March 22, 1990 Water year 1991: 12.86 ft on March 7, 1991 Water year 1992: 11.87 ft on February 23, 1992 Water year 1993: 13.13 ft on December 1, 1992 Water year 2011: 21.70 ft on February 12, 2011 Water year 2024: 25.71 ft on March 14, 2024 Water year 2025: 24.39 ft on October 2, 2024 Water year 2026: 21.75 ft on June 26, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 19.99 ft on October 13, 2026 2024

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.

Download the readings

apalachicola-r-ab-chipola-cutoff-near-wewahitchka.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 4,019 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.