Backup Web Site click HERE for more information.


SPECIAL NOTICE: Due to high rates of relative sea level rise resulting mainly from local land subsidence, tidal datums have been updated for the Galveston area which raises the elevation of Mean Lower Low Water (MLLW) by 0.6 ft. relative to the land. Click HERE for diagram. Click HERE for more information.

Click here to view a list of Houston/ Galveston PORTS® Data Products Click here to view map of Houston/ Galveston PORTS® Click here for Galveston Bay Operational Forecast System

- Click here to obtain the text-based PORTS® Screen 

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Change in water level station location. Click HERE for details.

NOTICE: The new toll-free phone number for voice access to Houston/Galveston PORTS information is 1-866-447-6787 (1-866-HGPORTS).


Houston/Galveston PORTS® Contacts and Information

Data Request Information, please contact:
Stephen Lyles
CO-OPS, Products and Services Division
Voice Phone: (301) 713-2877
FAX: (301) 713-4436
E-mail: Stephen.Lyles@noaa.gov

National PORTS® Information, please contact:
Capt. David MacFarland, NOAA (Ret.)
PORTS® Program Manager
Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS)
1305 East West Highway
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Voice Phone: (301) 713-2806 ext. 104
FAX: (301) 713-4392
E-mail: David.Macfarland@noaa.gov
Provide name of contact point, voice phone number, and e-mail address.


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Revised: September 14, 2000