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19991020: Sweden station (METAR) found by GEMPAK, not McIDAS

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  • Subject: 19991020: Sweden station (METAR) found by GEMPAK, not McIDAS
  • Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 13:40:41 -0600
>From: weather <address@hidden>
>Organization: NMSU/NSBF
>Keywords: 199910201830.MAA01852 McIDAS IDMSL

Robert,

Sorry that I didn't respond to this when it came in, but I saw GEMPAK
in the Subject line and stopped reading.

>Sorry to bombard with so many questions, but the place
>we are going to in Sweden is Kiruna.  They issue a METAR ob and I
>get can get the METAR ob from GEMPAK but not through McIDAS.
>Here is the station info:
>
>ESNQ      02044 KIRUNA AIRPORT                   -- SN  6782   2033   452
>
>Is this simply a matter of a station not being in the McIDAS
>station list, if so is it possible for me to add it?

I just used MSL to check on the availability of Kiruna in IDMSL:

MSL ESNQ
 IDN   ID    STATION NAME         DATA TYPES       ST CO  LAT    LON     ELEV
020440 ESNQ  KIRUNA AIRPORT            T              SN  67:49N 020:20E 452
MSL: DONE

The next thing was to check to see if it is MASTERID.DAT:

IDU LIST ESNQ
Idn     Id        Lat     Lon    Ele   St  Co  Description
020440  ESNQ      67.82  -20.33  452       SN  KIRUNA AIRPORT
--------------------------------------------------------------------
SYNOPTIC: all circuits
TERMFCST: all circuits

So, the station is there and, given the output from IDU, it should be being
decoded for synoptic and terminal forecasts (at least on our machine).

I tried listing out decoded values for ESNQ, but found none; this I can't
explain.  I was able, however, to use WXTLIST to find the raw text reports
from it:

WXTLIST MATCH='ESNQ'
Using the default value of DTIME=  1.00 hours
SASN31 KWBC 281920 RRA                                          1999301 1932
METAR
ESDF 281920Z 27006KT 250V310 9999 BKN025 09/06 Q1015=
ESGP 281920Z 27016KT CAVOK 10/07 Q1015=
ESMX 26010KT 220V300 9999 FEW018 08/06 Q1014=
ESNN 01003KT 0500S R16/0650 R34/0900 BCFG FEW001 M01/M02 Q1000=
ESNQ 281920Z 19013KT 9999 SCT010 BKN053 M00/M03 Q0982=
ESNU 281920Z 22005KT CAVOK 02/M01 Q0994=
ESOK 281920Z 27007KT CAVOK 07/01 Q1009=
WXTLIST: done

Sorry I can't be of more help.  Plus, I am heading to the airport to
leave for Australia in a little over an hour.

Tom