20020808: Interactive Station Table question

Mike,

The ASOS commissioning bulletin we received on 16/26/96 in the
datastream gave the elevation as 701.5m:

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NOUS40 KWBC 261425
FOS NOTICE NO. 1024                             12-26-96


EFFECTIVE   COMMENSURATE WITH OTA INSTALLATIONS   COMMISSIONINGS

/DRG2043/ THERE ARE SOME CORRECTED AND/OR NEW PILS WHICH ARE
REQUIRED TO ACCOMMODATE EITHER SOME UNIQUE ASOS SITING
REQUIREMENTS OR SOME SITES THAT WERE LEFT OFF.  FORMAL 3-LETTER
IDENTIFIERS HAVE BEEN REQUESTED FOR ALL SITES WITH 3-CHARACTER
IDENTIFIERS FROM THE FAA.  THIS NOTICE IS INTENDED TO CLEAN
THESE SITUATIONS UP AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.

SID    CITY            ST     LAT         LON        ELEV /M/
0V1    CUSTER          SD  43 44   N  103 37   W    1711.6
P35    CHILLICOTHE     MO  39 49 24N   93 34 45W     234.5
A05    SPRINGFIELD     CO      TBD        TBD         TBD
C96    ESTES PARK      CO      TBD        TBD         TBD
40J    PERRY-FOLEY     FL  30 04 19N   83 34 25W      13.7
HWO    HOLLYWOOD       FL  29 59 56N   80 14 28W       2.7
SLG    SILOAM SPRINGS  AR  36 11 30N   94 29 23W     363.7
COG    ORANGE          VA      -           -          -
4CR    CORONA          NM  34 06   N  105 41   W    1981.0
SAZ    STAPLES         MN      -           -          -
22G    LORAIN/ELYRIA   OH  41 20 46N   82 10 46W     242.1
29J    ROCK HILL       SC  34 59 02N   81 03 21W     202.1
2I8    NEWARK          OH  40 01 22N   82 27 45W     269.5
3SM    SHELBYVILLE     IN  39 35 08N   85 48   W     245.1
3SZ    ST CHARLES      MO  38 55 50N   90 25 57W     133.5
5B5    BENNINGTON      VT  42 53 24N   73 14 47W     252.4
6B1    ROCHESTER       NH  43 16 41N   70 55 20W     103.7
6R0    SLIDELL         LA  30 20 35N   89 49 19W       8.2
6R6    DRYDEN          TX  30 02 53N  102 12 47W     701.5
79J    ANDALUSIA       AL  31 18   N   86 23   W      94.5
7G2    ASHTABULA       OH  41 46 46N   80 41 48W     281.4
7R1    VENICE          LA  29 15 46N   89 21 48W       0.3
BIV    HOLLAND         MI  42 44 46N   86 05 48W     209.8
D07    FAITH           SD  45 01 55N  102 01 09W     784.8
DWH    HOUSTON         TX  30 04 03N   95 33 22W      46.3
F54    ARLINGTON       TX  32 39 50N   97 05 45W     192.1
IKR    KIRTLAND        NM  34 57   N  106 34   W    1612.8
L32    OCEANSIDE       CA  33 13 11N  117 20 55W       8.5
LOR    FORT RUCKER     AL  31 20 00N   85 45 00W    -
MPO    MT POCONO       PA  41 08 20N   75 22 46W     577.4
N00    FULTON          NY  43 20 59N   76 23 05W     144.8
NED    WINNER          SD  43 23 22N   99 50 34W     619.5
O18    HANFORD         CA  36 19 03N  119 37 46W      75.9
O45    VACAVILLE       CA  38 22 40N  121 57 27W      34.5
PMP    POMPANO BEACH   FL  26 14 44N   80 06 41W       6.1
REO    ROME            OR  42 35 26N  117 51 52W    1234.8
SPG    ST PETERSBURG   FL  27 46 02N   82 37 42W       2.4
TVR    VICKSBURG       LA  32 20 53N   91 01 48W      26.2
VPZ    VALPARAISO      IN  41 27 11N   86 59 53W     234.8
VYS    PERU            IL     -           -           -
A06    LA CIVIC CENTER CA  34 03 04N  118 14 07W      71.0

  NOTE   P35 WAS FORMERLY THE AMOS SITE AT SPICKARD  MO /40 DEG
         15 MIN N/93 DEG 43 MIN W/.  UPON THE COMMISSIONING OF
         THE ASOS AT CHILLICOTHE THE SITE ID FOR SPICKARD WILL
         TRANSFER TO CHILLICOTHE
  NOTE  A05 REPLACES THE SITE ID OF 8V7.  8V7 WAS AT AN AIRPORT
        SITE AND COULD NOT BE USED AS THE ASOS IS NOT ON THE
        AIRPORT SITE.
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AirNav has an estimated height of 708m for Dryden/Terrell County
http://www.airnav.com/airport/6R6

The AWIPS catalog has a height of 702m
http://www.awips.noaa.gov/ndm/masterfiles_jw/metarStationInfo.txt

The sfstns.tbl comes from NCEP and I make no modification to it.
I maintain the sfworld.tbl and sfmetar_sa.tbl file and add stations
as the become available, and likely at the time, the AWIPS table
didn't have the location so probably came from FAA or USAF.
The web page I wrote searches the sfworld.tbl file.

I'll change it to 702 in sfworld.tbl and sfmetar_sa.tbl for continuity.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support





On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Michael E. Splitt wrote:

> Chris,
>
> I pulled up the station 6R6 from the gempak interactive station page and
> retrieved:
>
> 6R6       99999 DRYDEN                           TX US  3004 -10221 702
>
> Here are the entries for 6R6 in a couple of the gempak-5.6d table/stns 
> directory:
>
> sfmetar_sa.tbl:  6R6       99999 DRYDEN                TX US 3004 -10221   702
> sfstns.tbl:  6R6      999999 TERREL_COUNTY_APRT_(ASOS)        TX US  3004 
> -10221   707  0
>
> I was assuming these were the same station, but there is a elevation 
> difference.
> Is the gempak ineractive page consistent with sfmetar_sa.tbl? I am trying to
> determine which table file (or the output from the interactive page) might be 
> best to
> use for updating a local station table file.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
>