Gulf Coast Gauges

Medio Creek near Beeville water level

USGS gauge 08189300 · Bee County · Corpus Christi and the Coastal Bend · NWS gauge MIOT2

3.90 ft

gage height, Oct 23, 2026 at 2:15 PM CDT · 35 minutes ago

Highest since 1962 (USGS)
38.68 ft (September 22, 1967)
Usual range
3.91 to 5.78 ft

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

No National Weather Service alert covering Bee County was active when this page was generated (Oct 23, 2026 at 2:50 PM CDT). Alerts are issued and expire at any time; the current list is at alerts.weather.gov.

Last 7 days

3.9 4.8 5.8 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 163.18 ft NAVD88. It is not a water depth and not an elevation: add 163.18 ft to get the water surface elevation.

Daily highs and lows since September 11, 2026

3.9 6.9 9.8 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 1962

In 41 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 1962), the highest peak was 38.68 ft on September 22, 1967. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 9.82 ft on October 3, 2026, higher than the annual peak in 18 of 41 years.

2 12 22 32 41 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 Water year 1962: 13.87 ft on June 2, 1962 Water year 1963: 11.75 ft on April 30, 1963 Water year 1964: 13.40 ft on August 9, 1964 Water year 1965: 14.06 ft on February 17, 1965 Water year 1966: 9.48 ft on February 10, 1966 Water year 1967: 38.68 ft on September 22, 1967 Water year 1968: 13.83 ft on May 12, 1968 Water year 1969: 8.91 ft on June 4, 1969 Water year 1970: 9.75 ft on March 11, 1970 Water year 1971: 14.38 ft on September 12, 1971 Water year 1972: 10.72 ft on October 17, 1971 Water year 1973: 11.12 ft on October 29, 1972 Water year 1974: 12.64 ft on October 11, 1973 Water year 1975: 6.10 ft on November 24, 1974 Water year 1976: 15.08 ft on April 30, 1976 Water year 1977: 14.75 ft on April 16, 1977 Water year 2002: 28.54 ft on November 16, 2001 Water year 2003: 12.31 ft on October 25, 2002 Water year 2004: 11.61 ft on April 6, 2004 Water year 2005: 9.76 ft on March 6, 2005 Water year 2006: 8.36 ft on September 18, 2006 Water year 2007: 12.24 ft on July 4, 2007 Water year 2008: 6.32 ft on March 7, 2008 Water year 2009: 6.47 ft on September 14, 2009 Water year 2010: 14.18 ft on October 3, 2009 Water year 2011: 6.42 ft on January 16, 2011 Water year 2012: 6.00 ft on March 20, 2012 Water year 2013: 14.44 ft on May 26, 2013 Water year 2014: 5.63 ft on May 27, 2014 Water year 2015: 11.92 ft on May 15, 2015 Water year 2016: 7.99 ft on August 21, 2016 Water year 2017: 4.82 ft on October 1, 2016 Water year 2018: 7.76 ft on June 20, 2018 Water year 2019: 11.26 ft on May 11, 2019 Water year 2020: 5.12 ft on July 18, 2020 Water year 2021: 15.12 ft on July 9, 2021 Water year 2022: 10.34 ft on September 5, 2022 Water year 2023: 8.81 ft on May 16, 2023 Water year 2024: 9.44 ft on February 4, 2024 Water year 2025: 12.13 ft on June 12, 2025 Water year 2026: 9.28 ft on May 28, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 9.82 ft on October 3, 2026 1967 2002 2021

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.

NWS historic crests

DateCrestAbove minor flood stage
July 9, 202115.12 ft—
May 15, 201511.92 ft—
May 11, 201911.26 ft—
September 5, 202210.34 ft—
August 21, 20167.99 ft—
June 20, 20187.76 ft—
July 18, 20205.12 ft—
October 1, 20174.82 ft—

The highest crests the National Weather Service lists for this gauge, as published. They can differ from the USGS annual peaks above: USGS records the year's highest gage height, which is not always the crest the NWS lists for the same flood.

Download the readings

medio-creek-near-beeville.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 4,037 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.