gage height, Oct 23, 2026 at 1:00 PM CDT · 65 minutes ago
Below NWS minor flood stage
10.7 ft
NWS action stage
12.0 ft
NWS minor flood stage
18.0 ft
NWS moderate flood stage
21.0 ft
NWS major flood stage
24.0 ft
Highest since 1994 (USGS)
32.22 ft (September 16, 2002)
Usual range
7.47 to 10.27 ft
USGS marks recent readings as provisional: they can be revised after review.
No National Weather Service alert covering Nueces County was active when this page was generated (Oct 23, 2026 at 2:05 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 this gauge's own zero point, which sits at -0.31 ft NAVD88. It is not a water depth and not an elevation: add -0.31 ft to get the water surface elevation.
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.
Daily highs and lows since September 11, 2026
Annual peaks since 1994
In 33 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 1994), the highest peak was 32.22 ft on September 16, 2002. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 10.87 ft on October 2, 2026, higher than the annual peak in 6 of 33 years.
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
Date
Crest
Above minor flood stage
September 16, 2002
32.22 ft
14.2 ft
July 17, 2002
31.78 ft
13.8 ft
July 14, 2007
30.80 ft
12.8 ft
May 22, 2015
30.06 ft
12.1 ft
August 1, 2007
29.73 ft
11.7 ft
July 7, 2002
29.47 ft
11.5 ft
October 23, 2003
29.41 ft
11.4 ft
May 15, 2004
28.63 ft
10.6 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
nueces-river-at-bluntzer.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 4,033 rows, with time in UTC and Central, gage height in feet, and the USGS approval status.
