SABINE PASS

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Station Information

Station ID: 920
Latitude: 29.705
Longitude: -93.853333
Coastline code: 940
Station code: 9
Country: UNITED STATES
Time span of data: 1958 – 1985
Completeness (%): 68
Date of last update: 04 Nov 1988

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)

Research Quality Data from UHSLC station 766: hourly and daily

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 1993-07-12

Sabine Pass 940/009 RLR(1972) is 7.8m below BM2

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 Galveston, Freeport and Sabine Pass, see Emery and Aubrey (Sea Levels, Land Levels and Tide Gauges), 1991, Springer-Verlag, page 39.

Documentation added 2012-02-09

Sabine Pass is now an Historic station. Although it does appear in the Historic Data section of the NOAA website there is now no benchmark information and very little 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