EUGENE ISLAND

Station Information

Station ID: 440
Latitude: 29.371667
Longitude: -91.385
Coastline code: 940
Station code: 11
Country: UNITED STATES
Time span of data: 1939 – 1974
Completeness (%): 92
Date of last update: 26 Oct 1990

Green Arrow: Current Station
Yellow Marker: Neighbouring RLR Station
Red Marker: Neighbouring Metric Station

Please note: In many cases, the station position in our database is accurate to only one minute. Thus, the tide gauge may not appear to be on the coast.

Additional Data Sources (guide to additional data sources)

Nearby Real Time Stations from VLIZ: apla

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 1991-06-11

Eugene Island 940/011 RLR(1964) is 7.6m below BM3

Documentation added 1993-07-29

Many stations on the Gulf coast have large values for September 1961.

Documentation added 1994-07-14

For a discussion of submergence near to Eugene Island and Grand Isle/Bayou Rigaud, see Emery and Aubrey (Sea Levels, Land Levels and Tide Gauges), 1991, Springer-Verlag, page 40.

Documentation added 2012-02-09

Eugene Island is an Historic station last data received is that for 1974. Although the station still features in the Historic Data in the NOAA website there is now very little benchmark and datum information available.

Data Authority

N.O.A.A. / N.O.S.
N/oes33, Ssmc4, Room 6531
1305 East-West Highway
Silver Spring,
MD 20910