Gulf Coast Gauges

Tangipahoa River near Kentwood water level

USGS gauge 07375300 · Tangipahoa Parish · New Orleans and the Northshore · NWS gauge KENL1

1.36 ft

gage height, Oct 23, 2026 at 2:00 PM CDT · 4 hours ago

Below NWS minor flood stage
11.6 ft
NWS action stage
12.0 ft
NWS minor flood stage
13.0 ft
NWS moderate flood stage
15.0 ft
NWS major flood stage
16.0 ft
Highest since 1999 (USGS)
18.35 ft (August 12, 2016)
Usual range
1.36 to 1.70 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

1.3 1.6 1.8 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 179.47 ft NAVD88. It is not a water depth and not an elevation: add 179.47 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

1.3 2.0 2.7 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 1951

In 28 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 1999), the highest peak was 18.35 ft on August 12, 2016. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 2.59 ft on October 5, 2026.

1 6 10 15 20 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 major 16 ft moderate 15 ft minor 13 ft action 12 ft Water year 1951: 14.08 ft on March 28, 1951 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1953: 12.14 ft on May 3, 1953 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1955: 13.67 ft on April 14, 1955 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1956: 11.21 ft on March 11, 1956 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1957: 10.68 ft on September 18, 1957 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1958: 11.37 ft on March 10, 1958 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1961: 13.13 ft on February 18, 1961 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1962: 13.86 ft on December 19, 1961 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1964: 12.72 ft on April 26, 1964 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1965: 14.33 ft on October 4, 1964 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1966: 13.50 ft on February 13, 1966 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1967: 14.35 ft on April 14, 1967 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1968: 10.98 ft on May 13, 1968 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1974: 14.48 ft on May 23, 1974 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1975: 12.58 ft on January 8, 1975 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1977: 14.65 ft on April 22, 1977 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1978: 12.23 ft on December 1, 1977 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1979: 14.32 ft on February 25, 1979 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1980: 16.12 ft on April 26, 1980 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1983: 17.20 ft on April 6, 1983 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1998: 14.83 ft on January 7, 1998 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1999: 15.33 ft on January 30, 1999 Water year 2000: 7.06 ft on September 14, 2000 Water year 2001: 14.11 ft on March 4, 2001 Water year 2002: 15.35 ft on September 27, 2002 Water year 2003: 12.47 ft on February 22, 2003 Water year 2004: 12.17 ft on February 13, 2004 Water year 2005: 11.01 ft on April 2, 2005 Water year 2006: 8.89 ft on January 24, 2006 Water year 2007: 12.46 ft on October 28, 2006 Water year 2008: 11.18 ft on September 4, 2008 Water year 2009: 15.12 ft on March 29, 2009 Water year 2010: 11.85 ft on December 16, 2009 Water year 2011: 12.56 ft on March 9, 2011 Water year 2012: 16.89 ft on August 31, 2012 Water year 2013: 12.93 ft on February 13, 2013 Water year 2014: 14.09 ft on February 22, 2014 Water year 2015: 11.13 ft on January 5, 2015 Water year 2016: 18.35 ft on August 12, 2016 Water year 2017: 11.19 ft on April 4, 2017 Water year 2018: 12.00 ft on January 29, 2018 Water year 2019: 12.26 ft on April 20, 2019 Water year 2020: 11.41 ft on February 7, 2020 Water year 2021: 15.43 ft on August 30, 2021 Water year 2022: 10.18 ft on August 25, 2022 Water year 2023: 13.06 ft on January 31, 2023 Water year 2024: 10.15 ft on January 26, 2024 Water year 2025: 12.10 ft on May 8, 2025 Water year 2026: 13.74 ft on January 11, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 2.59 ft on October 5, 2026 2016 2012 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 (21 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 12, 201618.35 ft5.4 ft
January 25, 199017.50 ft4.5 ft
April 6, 198317.20 ft4.2 ft
January 21, 199317.10 ft4.1 ft
August 31, 201216.89 ft3.9 ft
August 12, 201616.30 ft3.3 ft
March 11, 201616.17 ft3.2 ft
April 26, 198016.12 ft3.1 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-kentwood.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; flood stages and historic crests from the NWS National Water Prediction Service. This site is not affiliated with either agency.