Data



Data Notes



Extracted from Database

11 Mar 2019

STORNOWAY

Station Information

Station ID: 314
Latitude: 58.207806
Longitude: -6.388972
GLOSS ID: 238
Coastline code: 170
Station code: 251
Country: UNITED KINGDOM
Time span of RLR data: 1977 – 2017
RLR completeness (%): 85
Time span of metric data: 1928 – 2017
Metric completeness (%): 58
Link to ellipsoid: Available
Date of last update: 06 Jun 2018

Green Arrow: Current Station
Yellow Marker: Neighbouring RLR Station
Red Marker: Neighbouring Metric Station

Please note: In many cases, the station position in our database is accurate to only one minute. Thus, the tide gauge may not appear to be on the coast.

Tide Gauge Data

Plot of monthly mean sea level data at STORNOWAY.

Link to larger image of monthly data plot.
Download monthly mean sea level data.

Plot of annual mean sea level data at STORNOWAY.

Link to larger image of annual data plot.
Download annual mean sea level data.

Download metric sea level data. Use only with extreme caution.
NOTE: If some of the data are red in the plots above, the 'flag for attention' is set. Please see the documentation below.

Additional Data Sources (guide to additional data sources)

Nearby GNSS Stations from SONEL: SWTG
Nearby Real Time Stations from VLIZ: stor, stor2
Fast Delivery Data from UHSLC station 295: hourly and daily
Research Quality Data from UHSLC station 295: hourly and daily

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 1991-06-11

Stornoway 170/251 RLR(1986) is 10.5m below TGBM NB4228 3264

Documentation added 1994-07-20

Gauge installed in 1928 was a Porter stilling well gauge, replaced in 1956 by a Munro, in December 1963 by a Lea, in 1983 by a Munro and from April 1985 has been an "A Class" bubbler.

Documentation added 1994-09-22

Ott gauge 26 August 1981-30 July 1983

Documentation added 2001-01-02

Recent work on vertical land movements in the UK can be found from the University of Nottingham web site: http://ukcogr.iessg.nottingham.ac.uk/~eosi/ datum of observations prior to 1965 has proved unstable. 1988 datum suspect until July 18th.

Documentation added 2014-07-04

There were several visits to Stornoway by TGI during 2013. 21.03.2013 visit for general maintenance. Following power problems during August TGI visited the site on 19.08.2013 to once again carry out general maintenance and replace the faulty power supply. There was also a visit on 11.12.2013 to change the compressor.

Documentation added 2015-05-18

There is no data for Stornoway for November and December 2014. A pontoon came adrift during storms on 06.11.14 severing all the pneumatic lines so that all channels were lost. TGI were at site 02.12.14 to repair the lines.

Data Authority

British Oceanographic Data Centre
National Oceanography Centre
Joseph Proudman Building, 6 Brownlow Street
Liverpool
L3 5DA