Gulf Coast Gauges

Bayou Sara at Saraland water level

USGS gauge 02470805 · Mobile County · Mobile Bay · NWS gauge SARA1

4.28 ft

gage height, Oct 23, 2026 at 2:30 PM CDT · 3 hours ago

Usual range
2.72 to 4.49 ft

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

No National Weather Service alert covering Mobile 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

1.1 2.8 4.5 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 this gauge's own zero point, which sits at 2.00 ft NAVD88. It is not a water depth and not an elevation: add 2.00 ft to get the water surface elevation.

Daily highs and lows since September 11, 2026

0.3 2.8 5.3 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Download the readings

bayou-sara-at-saraland.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 4,045 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.