Greens Bayou near Houston
Highest listed crest 86.16 ftFlood stage 84.8 ft6 crests since 2006
The Greens Bayou near Houston crested above flood stage 2 times among the 6 crests the National Weather Service lists from 2006 to 2017. The highest, 86.16 ft on April 18, 2016, was minor flooding, 1.36 feet above flood stage. 2 other gauges on the Greens Bayou crested above flood stage within a week of it.
The gauge
- Highest listed crest
- 86.16 ft
- April 18, 2016; 12,400 cubic feet per second
- Flood stage
- 84.8 ft
- Major flooding from 87.7 ft
- Crests at major
- 0
- 2 above flood stage
- Most recent flood crest
- August 27, 2017
- 85.84 ft, minor flooding
Flood stages
The thresholds the National Weather Service uses for this gauge today, and how many listed crests reached each.
| Action stage | 81.8 | 3 | May 26, 2015 |
| Flood stage (minor) | 84.8 | 2 | Aug 27, 2017 |
| Moderate flood stage | 86.6 | 0 | — |
| Major flood stage | 87.7 | 0 | — |
Every listed crest
6 crests from 2006 to 2017. Filled: at or above flood stage. Hover a crest for its date and stage.
Crests at or above flood stage, by decade
- These are the crests the local National Weather Service office lists for the gauge: the highest on record and recent crests. Lesser floods between them may be missing, so counts by decade are a floor.
- Categories use today's flood stages. Levees, dams and channel changes since a crest can make old and new stages not directly comparable.
- 18 crests measured on an earlier gauge datum are left out: 91.09 ft on Feb 21, 1969; 86.91 ft on Aug 18, 1983; 87.37 ft on Oct 25, 1984; 90.20 ft on Jun 26, 1989; 79.89 ft on Feb 21, 1990; 78.11 ft on Jun 25, 1990; and more.
Highest crests
| 1 | Apr 18, 2016 | 86.16 | +1.36 | Minor |
| 2 | Aug 27, 2017 | 85.84 | +1.04 | Minor |
| 3 | Sep 13, 2008 | 83.49 | −1.31 | Action |
| 4 | May 26, 2015 | 82.90 | −1.90 | Action |
| 5 | Oct 16, 2006 | 81.89 | −2.91 | Action |
| 6 | Oct 31, 2015 | 79.60 | −5.20 | Below flood stage |
The worst floods along the Greens Bayou
For this gauge's highest crests, the other gauges on the Greens Bayou that crested above flood stage within a week.
Gauges on the Greens Bayou
In USGS station-number order, which runs downstream within a river basin.
Other gauges in Harris County
| Barker | 114.86 ft, Apr 18, 2016 | 5 |
| Gessner Drive | 61.60 ft, May 26, 2015 | 7 |
| Houston | 45.67 ft, Aug 27, 2017 | 1 |
| Barker Reservoir | 101.60 ft, Aug 27, 2017 | 0 |
| Piney Point Village | 62.84 ft, Aug 31, 2017 | 1 |
| Shepherd Drive | 41.90 ft, Aug 28, 2017 | 2 |
| West Belt Drive | 71.22 ft, Aug 31, 2017 | 3 |
| Crosby | 58.99 ft, Aug 28, 2017 | 0 |
| Telephone Road | 47.40 ft, Aug 29, 2017 | 0 |
| Cypress | 129.97 ft, Aug 28, 2017 | 3 |
| Hockley | 162.85 ft, Aug 28, 2017 | 6 |
| Westfield | 97.12 ft, Aug 29, 2017 | 9 |
| Houston | 62.88 ft, Aug 28, 2017 | 10 |
| Houston | 44.85 ft, Aug 28, 2017 | 17 |
| Addicks Reservoir | 109.09 ft, Aug 30, 2017 | 0 |
| Addicks | 112.64 ft, Apr 18, 2016 | 3 |
| Sheldon | 28.72 ft, Aug 29, 2017 | 16 |
| Houston | 30.44 ft, Oct 5, 1981 | 5 |
| Spring | 111.60 ft, Oct 18, 1994 | 4 |
| Tide Station (HGX) at Manchester | 7.57 ft, Sep 14, 2021 | 1 |
| Tide Station (HGX) at Morgan's Point | 6.03 ft, Sep 14, 2021 | 1 |
| Humble | 69.18 ft, Aug 29, 2017 | 24 |
| Houston | 45.60 ft, Aug 28, 2017 | 4 |
| Tomball | 133.89 ft, Aug 28, 2017 | 1 |
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NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge HGBT2, retrieved October 30, 2026. Stages in feet on the gauge's own datum, not elevation. Crests are as the National Weather Service lists them; preliminary values may be revised.