- Stage now
- 1.70 ftreported Oct 15, 10:30 PM EDT
- 24 hour change
- -
- Elevation
- 3 ftabove sea level
- County
- City of Virginia Beach County
- Position
- 36.7432° N, 75.9549° W
- Record since
- 2026
Water level
Black Gut Canal at Sandbridge Road
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 12 min
- Reports received, 24 hours
- 116 of 12096.6% of its schedule, 138 reports in all
- Reports received, 7 days
- 821 of 84097.7% of its schedule, 996 reports in all
- Longest silence, 7 days
- 30 minfrom Oct 15, 1:12 PM
- Latest report
- Oct 15, 10:24 PMlocal time
- Time to reach Storm Station
- 16 min9 in 10 within 18 min
From Storm Station's own record of every report it heard from this station.
Its schedule is one report every 12 min, 120 in 24 hours. Two reports in the same 12 min count as one received.
Ranking Statistics
247 score97.8of 100
- Virginia median
- 95.9the median score of 1,541 stations
- Scoring higher
- 508stations in Virginia
- Sharing its score
- 13ranks 509 to 521
- Points deducted
- 2.21.1 arrival, 0.7 reports received, 0.4 forecast check
- Counted at the median
- Accuracy, instrument checks, forecast checknot measured at this station; Virginia median 100.0, 100.0, 96.5
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 3597.934.3 of 35 pointsVirginia median 97.9822 of 840 scheduled reports received in 7 days
- Arrivalweight 1088.98.9 of 10 pointsVirginia median 92.7half its reports arrived within 16 min
- Continuityweight 10100.010.0 of 10 pointsVirginia median 100.0longest silence 30 min, on a schedule of one report every 12 min
- Accuracyweight 20-20.0 of 20 points, at the medianVirginia median 100.0-
- Instrument checksweight 15-15.0 of 15 points, at the medianVirginia median 100.0-
- Forecast checkweight 10-9.7 of 10 points, at the medianVirginia median 96.5-
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 (36 min), none for 72 (14.4 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 Black Gut Canal at Sandbridge Road
Gauges
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.