Live/Water/California/USGS/Alert Streamflow Gage 2 SW Salinas River near Chualar
USGS/Alert Streamflow Gage 2 SW Salinas River near Chualar
A water gauge in Monterey County, California. Its stage was 1.38 ft as of Oct 15, 10:05 PM PDT.
- Stage now
- 1.38 ftreported Oct 15, 10:05 PM PDT
- 24 hour change
- -
- Elevation
- 85 ftabove sea level
- County
- Monterey County
- Position
- 36.5556° N, 121.5486° W
- Record since
- 2010
Water level
USGS/Alert Streamflow Gage 2 SW Salinas River near Chualar
Stage is the height of the water's surface above the gauge's own fixed zero, in feet, not the depth of the water. Every point drawn is a reading the gauge sent, at the time it sent it.
How it reports
- Schedule
- every 30 minon the hour's :05 and :35
- Reports received, 24 hours
- 47 of 4897.9% of its schedule, 53 reports in all
- Reports received, 7 days
- 335 of 33699.7% of its schedule, 357 reports in all
- Longest silence, 7 days
- 1 hourfrom Oct 15, 9:35 AM
- Latest report
- Oct 15, 9:05 PMlocal time
- Time to reach Storm Station
- 10 min9 in 10 within 19 min
From Storm Station's own record of every report it heard from this station.
Its schedule is one report every 30 min, 48 in 24 hours. Two reports in the same 30 min count as one received.
Ranking Statistics
247 score96.3of 100
- California median
- 91.6the median score of 4,465 stations
- Scoring higher
- 317stations in California
- Sharing its score
- 12ranks 318 to 329
- Points deducted
- 3.72.9 accuracy, 0.8 forecast check, 0.1 reports received
- Counted at the median
- Accuracy, instrument checks, forecast checknot measured at this station; California median 85.6, 100.0, 92.4
Equal scores are ordered by the share of scheduled reports received, then the reports due in the week (the longer record first), then the median arrival, then the longest silence.
- Reports receivedweight 3599.734.9 of 35 pointsCalifornia median 98.5335 of 336 scheduled reports received in 7 days
- Arrivalweight 10100.010.0 of 10 pointsCalifornia median 81.2half its reports arrived within 10 min
- Continuityweight 10100.010.0 of 10 pointsCalifornia median 100.0longest silence 60 min, on a schedule of one report every 30 min
- Accuracyweight 20-17.1 of 20 points, at the medianCalifornia median 85.6-
- Instrument checksweight 15-15.0 of 15 points, at the medianCalifornia median 100.0-
- Forecast checkweight 10-9.2 of 10 points, at the medianCalifornia median 92.4-
The score is the weighted mean of its six parts, from the last 7 days. How a station is ranked sets out each part.
How each part is scored
- Reports received
- Full marks for every scheduled report received, none for none, in proportion between
- Arrival
- Full marks for a median arrival within 10 min, none at 60 min
- Continuity
- Full marks for a longest silence of 3 reports or less (1.5 h), none for 72 (36 h)
- Accuracy
- Full marks within 1.5 °F of its reference, typically, none beyond 8.0 °F
- Instrument checks
- Full marks for no reading failed, none for 5 per cent or more
- Forecast check
- Full marks within 2 °F of the forecast on average, none at 8 °F
Near USGS/Alert Streamflow Gage 2 SW Salinas River near Chualar
Gauges
- USGS/Alert (Gage/Forecast Point 5 SSW Salinas R near Spreckels)8.6 mi, 3.75 ft
- USGS/Alert (Gage/Forecast Point at Carmel R A Robles Del Rio)11 mi, 2.04 ft
- Alert Res/Rain Gage 7 SSE Los Padres Dam13 mi, 1,021.20 ft
- USGS Streamflow Gage at Reclamation Ditch near Salinas13 mi, 2.65 ft
- USGS/Alert Streamflow/Rain Gage at Salinas R A Soledad16 mi, 9.21 ft
Weather instruments
How to read a gauge
A gauge measures the height of the water where it stands, its stage, in feet above a fixed mark at that gauge. Two gauges' stages are not comparable: each is measured from its own mark, and a reservoir's is often its height above sea level.
The stage shown is the latest the gauge reported, with the time it reported it. Storm Station hears each gauge on its own schedule and ranks it among its state's stations by its 247 score, how reliably it reports and how its readings hold up: that is its 247 rank.