Table 2 
Hydrograph Information 
Location Agency Max Elevation, ft 
Freeport, Tex. NOS 4.0 
Pleasure Pier, NOS 9.0 
Galveston, 
exe 
Pier 21, NOS 5.8 
Galveston, 
Tex. 
Fort Point, CE 6.1 
Galveston, 
WERE. 
Seabrook, Tex.* CE 8.5 
T-14, Baytown, CE 6.1 
Tex.** 
Baytown EXXON 10.2 
Refinery, Corporation 
Tex. 
Anahuac, Texas State 8.0 
Tex.** Water Resources 
Board 
Hannah Reef, CE 6.0 
Tex.* 
Sabine Lake, CE Geel 
Tex.* 
Calcasieu Pass, CE 4.0 
La. 
Note: NOS = National Ocean Service. 
CE = Corps of Engineers. 
NGVD = National Geodetic Vertical Datum. 
MSL = mean sea level. 
Time of peak surge estimated. 
** Incomplete hydrograph, see text. 
Time 
0630/17/08/83 
0130/18/08/83 
0200/18/08/83 
0200/18/08/83 
0430/18/08/83 
0245/18/08/83 
0730/18/08/83 
0800/18/08/83 
0400/18/08/83 
1400/17/08/83 
1600/17/08/83 
Datum 
NGVD 
NGVD 
NGVD 
NGVD 
NGVD 
NGVD 
MSL 
NGVD. 
NGVD 
NGVD 
NGVD 
the hydrographs were obviously in error; in most instances the recorded times 
showed the peak surge within the bay occurring before the peak surge outside 
the bay. 
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