San Fernando Creek near Alice

The past week

What floods at each level

• 23.5 ft

  Water is to the guage height. This is the reference mark on the Edith Street bridge.

• 22 ft

  Water is to the Edith Street bridge floor.

• 19 ft

  Water reaches the Highway 359 bridge floor. The first business sections of Alice 1.1 mile west of the creek become flooded.

• 17 ft

  Water reaches the east and west approaches of the bottom of Highway 359 bridge, 2 miles northeast of Alice. The theater in the flood plain one half mile west of the bridge is threatened.

• 12 ft

  Minor lowland flooding occurs, with flow 200 yards wide. Lower sections of the Country Club Golf Course are flooded.

• 11 ft

  Overbank condtions cause nuisance flooding.

• 4 ft

  The creek reaches bankfull, but there are no observable effects until the stage exceeds 10 feet.

Highest crests on record