City Location File (.cty)
The city database file contain reporting station location information.
FORMAT
The format for this database file is as follows:
longname st cn iiiii p lat lon elev wmo [###]
Where:
- longname -- Station name. (max 20 characters)
- st -- Abbreviated state or region name. (2 characters-starts in column 17)
- cn -- Abbreviated country name. (2 characters-starts in column 20)
- iiiii -- ICAO station identifier. (up to 5 characters-starts column 23)
- p -- Priority used for display filtering purposes. (column 30)
0 is the highest priority, 7 is the lowest, 9 represents no priority - lat -- Latitude in degrees (north is positive)
- lon -- Longitude in degrees (east is positive)
- elev -- Elevation in meters
- wmo -- 5 digit WMO station identifier (99999 represents no assigned numeric identifier). This is the site ID for radar data.
- ### -- optional numeric field (used for station occurrence)
EXAMPLES
Here is a sample of some stations from the sao.cty file:
Mackinac_Isl_Arpt MI US KMCD 5 45.866 -84.634 228 99999 1340 Merced/Macready_Fld CA US KMCE 4 37.286 -120.512 49 99999 1283 Tampa/MacDill_AFB FL US KMCF 6 27.860 -82.513 3 74788 1165 Kansas_City_Intl MO US KMCI 1 39.297 -94.731 308 72446 1340 Houston/Dunn(HEL) TX US KMCJ 7 29.714 -95.395 70 99999 1273 McCook_Muni NE US KMCK 4 40.204 -100.590 780 99999 1343
| Database | Type of Stations | Location |
|---|---|---|
| sao.cty | Surface SAO/METAR | Global |
| sao_all.cty | Surface SAO/METAR | Global+non-reporting |
| upa.cty | Upper air | Global |
| upa_all.cty | Upper air | Global+non-reporting |
| syn.cty | Surface Synoptic | Global |
| syn_all.cty | Surface Synoptic | Global+non-reporting |
| rad.cty | NEXRAD Radar | United States |
| mos.cty | Model Output | North America |
| shef.cty | SHEF | United States |
SEE ALSO
Last updated May 1, 2020