gage height, Oct 20, 2026 at 1:15 PM CDT · 20 minutes ago
Below NWS minor flood stage
10.7 ft
NWS action stage
23.0 ft
NWS minor flood stage
26.0 ft
NWS moderate flood stage
27.0 ft
NWS major flood stage
28.0 ft
Usual range
15.21 to 15.36 ft
USGS marks recent readings as provisional: they can be revised after review.
No National Weather Service alert covering Harris County was active when this page was generated (Oct 20, 2026 at 1:35 PM CDT). Alerts are issued and expire at any time; the current list is at alerts.weather.gov.
Last 7 days
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 NAVD88, so its gage height is the water surface elevation above that datum. It is not a water depth.
The flood stages are the National Weather Service's, on the same scale as the gage height; they are the NWS's references for this location, not estimates made here.
Goose Creek at I-10, less than 0.1 mi away, read 14.90 ft at Oct 20, 2026 at 11:16 AM CDT, 11.1 ft below its top of bank. Both gauges report water surface elevation.
Download the readings
goose-creek-near-mcnair.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 3,549 rows, with time in UTC and Central, gage height in feet, and the USGS approval status.