PARKSTON 8 ENE, SOUTH DAKOTA

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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643 396462-9 PARKSTON 5 E 4324 09754 0139 48 05 72 11
644 396462-9 PARKSTON 8 ENE 4326 09750 0132 72 11 U U 76 12

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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396462 19480101 19760831 9976 9886 9856 6041 6041 6012 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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396462 PARKSTON 8 ENE 19480101 19760831 10471 9977 6359 494 274

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