20020402: times cannot be added

Grady,

You are creating your surface file with room for 20 different times:
>  TIMSTN    Times/additional stations         20/50
...
>  Total number of times:             20


Your data is every 15 minutes. You start seeing errors at:
  [SFEDIT -7]  Time 960509/0515 cannot be added to data set.

That should be the result of already adding your 20 times:
0015, 0030, 0045,
0100, 0115, 0130, 0145,
0200, 0215, 0230, 0245,
0300, 0315, 0330, 0345,
0400, 0415, 0430, 0445,
0500

If you want 4x per hour * 24 hours, try creating the file with 96
times. The maximum number of times that you can have in a surface
file is 300.


Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support

On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Grady Dixon wrote:

> Steve
>
> I am using 5.6 to plot surface data from several different
> stations...some report in metric units, some report in english units.
> But I keep getting an [SFEDIT -7] error:  "time...cannot be added to
> data set"
>
> here is a sample of my sfefil:
> PARM = TMPC;DWPC;RELH;SPED;SKNT;DRCT;PRES;ALTI
>
> STID      DATTIM    TMPC  DWPC  RELH  SPED  SKNT DRCT   PRES    ALTI
> ATA  960509/0015   23.17 -9999 73.40  2.62 -9999 155.90 982.00 -9999
> ATA  960509/0030   22.94 -9999 73.70  2.03 -9999 167.20 982.00 -9999
> ATA  960509/0045   22.83 -9999 75.10  2.08 -9999 174.50 982.00 -9999
> ATA  960509/0100   22.67 -9999 76.50  1.91 -9999 201.30 982.00 -9999
> ATA  960509/0115   22.50 -9999 76.80  2.18 -9999 201.70 981.00 -9999
> ATA  960509/0130   22.39 -9999 77.80  2.09 -9999 204.70 981.00 -9999
> ATA  960509/0145   22.22 -9999 77.20  2.41 -9999 206.70 981.00 -9999
> ATA  960509/0200   22.17 -9999 75.80  2.22 -9999 215.00 981.00 -9999
> ATA  960509/0215   22.11 -9999 75.40  2.79 -9999 216.20 981.00 -9999
> ATA  960509/0230   21.94 -9999 75.50  3.17 -9999 226.40 981.00 -9999
> ATA  960509/0245   21.78 -9999 76.50  3.12 -9999 216.00 981.00 -9999
> ATA  960509/0300   21.61 -9999 77.40  2.11 -9999 226.40 981.00 -9999
> ATA  960509/0315   21.28 -9999 79.50  2.21 -9999 239.00 982.00 -9999
>
>
>
> here is a copy of my sfcfil and sfedit commands with the first few
> errors listed:
>
> SFOUTF    Output surface file               may.sfc
>  SFPRMF    Surface parameter packing file
> tmpc;dwpc;relh;sped;sknt;drct;pres;alti
>  STNFIL    Station information file          stations.tbl
>  SHIPFL    Ship data file flag               NO
>  TIMSTN    Times/additional stations         20/50
>  SFFSRC    Surface file source               text
>  Parameters requested: SFOUTF,SFPRMF,STNFIL,SHIPFL,TIMSTN,SFFSRC.
>  GEMPAK-SFCFIL>r
>
>  SFCFIL PARAMETERS:
>
>  New surface file:      may.sfc
>
>  Parameter file:        tmpc;dwpc;relh;sped;sknt;drct;pres;alti
>
>  Station file:
>
>  Number of stations in STNFIL:      25
>  Number of additional stations:     50
>  Total number of stations:          75
>  Total number of times:             20
>
>  This file will be a standard surface file.
>
> Enter <cr> to accept parameters or type EXIT:
>  The file has been created.
>  Parameters requested: SFOUTF,SFPRMF,STNFIL,SHIPFL,TIMSTN,SFFSRC.
>  GEMPAK-SFCFIL>e
> austru% sfedit
>  SFEFIL    Surface edit file                 may.prn
>  SFFILE    Surface data file                 may.sfc
>  Parameters requested: SFEFIL,SFFILE.
>  GEMPAK-SFEDIT>r
>
>  SFEDIT PARAMETERS:
>
>  Edit file:           may.prn
>
>
>  Output surface file: may.sfc
>
>
>  Parameters to be added to file:
>
>  TMPC DWPC RELH SPED SKNT DRCT PRES ALTI
> Enter <cr> to accept parameters or type EXIT:
>  [SFEDIT -7]  Time 960509/0515 cannot be added to data set.
>  [SFEDIT -7]  Time 960509/0530 cannot be added to data set.
>  [SFEDIT -7]  Time 960509/0545 cannot be added to data set.
>  [SFEDIT -7]  Time 960509/0600 cannot be added to data set.
>  [SFEDIT -7]  Time 960509/0615 cannot be added to data set.
>  [SFEDIT -7]  Time 960509/0630 cannot be added to data set.
>  [SFEDIT -7]  Time 960509/0645 cannot be added to data set.
>  [SFEDIT -7]  Time 960509/0700 cannot be added to data set.
>  [SFEDIT -7]  Time 960509/0715 cannot be added to data set.
>  [SFEDIT -7]  Time 960509/0730 cannot be added to data set.
>  [SFEDIT -7]  Time 960509/0745 cannot be added to data set.
>  [SFEDIT -7]  Time 960509/0800 cannot be added to data set.
>  [SFEDIT -7]  Time 960509/0815 cannot be added to data set.
>  [SFEDIT -7]  Time 960509/0830 cannot be added to data set.
>  [SFEDIT -7]  Time 960509/0845 cannot be added to data set.
>  [SFEDIT -7]  Time 960509/0900 cannot be added to data set.
>
>
> Any suggestions on how to get this to work?
> Thanks
> GRADY
>
> *********************************
> Grady Dixon
> Department of Geography
> University of Georgia
> http://www.arches.uga.edu/~gdixon
>
>