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 MpU lat lon elev wmo [###]
Where:
- longname -- Station name. (max 15 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)
- M -- Indicator for forecast model output station. (Obsolete-column 29)
- p -- Priority used for display filtering purposes. (column 30)
1 is the highest priority, 7 is the lowest, 9 represents no priority - U -- Indicator for an upper air station. (Obsolete-column 31)
- 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:
Phoenix/Luke AF AZ US KLUF 5 33.53 -112.38 332 99999 Philadelphia In PA US KPHL 2 39.88 -75.25 9 72408 Petersburg (AWO VA US KPTB 4 37.18 -77.52 59 99999 Petersburg AK US PAPG 4 56.82 -132.97 0 70386 Peoria Regional IL US KPIA 2 40.67 -89.68 202 72532 Pensacola Regio FL US KPNS 4 30.47 -87.18 37 99999 Pendleton Munic OR US KPDT 3 45.68 -118.85 456 72688 Pelly Bay 1 NT CN CWRF 3 69.43 -89.73 325 71918 Pellston/Emmet MI US KPLN 4 45.57 -84.80 219 99999
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 August 7, 1998