Data and Station Information for SKAGWAY

Station Information

Station ID:	495
Latitude:	59.45
Longitude:	-135.326667
Coastline code:	821
Station code:	41
Country:	UNITED STATES
Time span of data:	1944 – 2024
Completeness (%):	83
Date of last update:	23 Jan 2025

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.

Tide Gauge Data

Plot of monthly mean sea level data at SKAGWAY.

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Plot of annual mean sea level data at SKAGWAY.

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Download metric sea level data. Use only with extreme caution. NOTE: If some of the data are red in the plots above, the 'flag for attention' is set. Please see the documentation below.

Additional Data Sources (guide to additional data sources)

Nearby GNSS Stations from SONEL: AB44

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 1991-06-11

Skagway, Alaska 821/041 RLR(1974) is 14.0m below BM1

Documentation added 1992-04-02

SOUTH ALASKAN COASTLINE EARTHQUAKE PRONE - E.G. MAGNITUDE 9.2 EARTHQUAKE OF 28 MARCH 1964 - SEE SAVAGE AND PLAFKER, JGR,96(B3), 4325-4335, 1991 1944 - 1970 VALUES BASED ON 24 READINGS PER DAY

Documentation added 1995-08-29

A tsunami triggered by a landslide and not an earthquake occurred on 1 November 1994 in Skagway Harbor - see Earth System Monitor,5(4), June 1995.

Documentation added 2011-11-23

Using Information from the NOAA website the RLR diagram has been revised. Previous Primary benchmark BM 1 11.015m above TGZ does not now appear in the NOAA report. Current Primary benchmark NO 11 1969 11.646m above TGZ appeared on the original RLR diagram. The original RLR year was 1974 data 1971-1974 was deleted to correspond with the publication 'Sea Level Variations in U.S. 1855-1986'. RLR was re-defined using RLR year 2009. New RLR factor is 3.585m.

Data Authority

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

Data

Data Notes

Extracted from Database

SKAGWAY