Gulf Coast Gauges

Tangipahoa River near Amite water level

USGS gauge 07375430 · Tangipahoa Parish · New Orleans and the Northshore · NWS gauge AMIL1

5.05 ft

gage height, Oct 23, 2026 at 3:00 PM CDT · 3 hours ago

Below NWS minor flood stage
15.9 ft
NWS action stage
18.0 ft
NWS minor flood stage
21.0 ft
NWS moderate flood stage
25.0 ft
NWS major flood stage
30.0 ft
Highest since 2005 (USGS)
29.28 ft (August 12, 2016)
Usual range
5.05 to 5.27 ft

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

No National Weather Service alert covering Tangipahoa Parish was active when this page was generated (Oct 23, 2026 at 5:50 PM CDT). Alerts are issued and expire at any time; the current list is at alerts.weather.gov.

Last 7 days

5.0 5.3 5.5 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 80.00 ft NAVD88. It is not a water depth and not an elevation: add 80.00 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

5.0 5.3 5.6 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 1949

In 21 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 2005), the highest peak was 29.28 ft on August 12, 2016. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 5.56 ft on October 5, 2026.

2 14 25 37 48 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 major 30 ft moderate 25 ft minor 21 ft action 18 ft Water year 1949: 45.26 ft on May 4, 1949 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1950: 42.40 ft on January 8, 1950 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1951: 42.62 ft on March 30, 1951 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1952: 41.90 ft on February 16, 1952 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1953: 42.19 ft on May 3, 1953 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1954: 41.04 ft on December 4, 1953 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1955: 42.55 ft on April 15, 1955 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1956: 40.57 ft on February 5, 1956 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1958: 40.00 ft on January 25, 1958 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1959: 41.85 ft on June 1, 1959 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1961: 43.19 ft on February 22, 1961 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1962: 43.29 ft on April 29, 1962 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1964: 39.12 ft on March 2, 1964 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1965: 40.46 ft on October 4, 1964 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1999: 17.10 ft on January 31, 1999 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2000: 8.96 ft on September 14, 2000 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2001: 16.40 ft on March 4, 2001 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2002: 19.42 ft on September 28, 2002 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2003: 15.56 ft on July 1, 2003 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2004: 17.06 ft on May 16, 2004 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2005: 11.31 ft on February 2, 2005 Water year 2006: 8.67 ft on January 24, 2006 Water year 2007: 14.62 ft on December 31, 2006 Water year 2008: 10.77 ft on September 4, 2008 Water year 2009: 18.82 ft on March 29, 2009 Water year 2010: 14.07 ft on December 18, 2009 Water year 2011: 17.30 ft on March 9, 2011 Water year 2012: 23.30 ft on August 31, 2012 Water year 2013: 18.52 ft on January 11, 2013 Water year 2014: 16.07 ft on February 22, 2014 Water year 2015: 12.39 ft on March 2, 2015 Water year 2016: 29.28 ft on August 12, 2016 Water year 2017: 16.19 ft on January 21, 2017 Water year 2018: 15.10 ft on January 28, 2018 Water year 2019: 18.98 ft on December 28, 2018 Water year 2021: 21.40 ft on August 30, 2021 Water year 2022: 12.68 ft on August 24, 2022 Water year 2023: 14.58 ft on February 1, 2023 Water year 2024: 13.66 ft on January 25, 2024 Water year 2025: 14.06 ft on May 8, 2025 Water year 2026: 16.01 ft on June 17, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 5.56 ft on October 5, 2026 2016 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. Grey hollow dots (20 years) were measured on a different datum or at a different site, or before the gauge's datum last changed, so they are shown but not compared.

NWS historic crests

DateCrestAbove minor flood stage
August 11, 201629.28 ft8.3 ft
March 11, 201624.73 ft3.7 ft
August 31, 201223.30 ft2.3 ft
August 29, 202121.40 ft0.4 ft
September 28, 200219.42 ft—
March 29, 200918.82 ft—
January 11, 201318.52 ft—
March 9, 201117.30 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

tangipahoa-river-near-amite.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 4,049 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; flood stages and historic crests from the NWS National Water Prediction Service. This site is not affiliated with either agency.