DORCHESTER, IOWA

Station Metadata


From NCDC Station Historical Listing for NWS Cooperative Network
ObsTyp: t-Temperature-1, p-Daily precip-2, w-(blank), s-(blank), e-Evap-5
h-Hourly precip - 6 0.01" Universal, or - 7 0.10" Fisher-Porter
U - Observed, but beginning date is uncertain
Count Number Station Name Lat Long Elev Start ObsTyp End
(Coop) (From NCDC listing) ddmm dddmm ftx10 yy mm tpwseh yy mm
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374 132311-3 DORCHESTER 3 S 4325 09132 -999 48 04 U 54 03
375 132311-3 DORCHESTER 3 S 4325 09131 0075 54 04 U 59 05
376 132311-3 DORCHESTER 3 S 4326 09131 -999 59 05 U 62 03
377 132311-3 DORCHESTER 3 S 4325 09131 0075 62 03 U 71 07
378 132311-3 DORCHESTER 4328 09130 0078 71 07 U 88 03
379 132311-3 DORCHESTER 4 S 4325 09131 0071 88 04 2 91 02
380 132311-3 DORCHESTER 4328 09130 0075 91 04 2 99 99

Statistics by element

(From WRCC data archives)
Last Compiled on Apr.23, 2009.
Dates are format of YYYYMMDD. Numbers are total Number of observations
STATION START END PRECP SNWFL SNWDP TMAX TMIN TOBS EVAP WNDMV
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132311 19480401 20081224 20418 20513 17740 0 0 1 0 0
STATION - NCDC COOP Station number
START - First Date in record
END - Last Date in record (when last compiled)
PRECP - Precipitation
SNWFL - Snowfall
SNWDP - Snow depth
TMAX - Daily Max. Temperature
TMIN - Daily Min. Temperature
TOBS - Temperature at Observation time
EVAP - Evaporation
WNDMV - Wind Movement

Statistics by observation

(From WRCC data archives)
Last Compiled on Apr.23, 2009.
Dates are format of YYYYMMDD. Numbers represent one day and one day is considered present if any element is reported.
STATION NAME START END POSBL PRSNT LNGPR MISSG LNGMS
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132311 DORCHESTER 19480401 20081224 22183 20870 2190 1313 305

STATION - NCDC COOP Station number
NAME - Most recent name in NCDC history file
START - First Date in record
END - Last Date in record (when last compiled)
POSBL - Possible number of observations between START and END date
PRSNT - Number of days present in record
LNGPR - Largest number of consecutive observations
MISSG - Total number of missing days (no observation)
LNGMS - Largest number of consecutive missing observations