19990707: Possible identity to station 74626

James,

I found 74650 and 651 in FSL's upper air station table at
http://raob.fsl.noaa.gov/intl/intl2000.wmo

74650 35.68N 95.87W 216m   MORRIS 99 OK
74651 34.97N 97.70W 343m   PURCELL 99 OK

Still looking for 84626. I contacted Robert Mullenax at
the National Scientific Balloon Facillity. He didn't have the info
but was going to look into it...though he was leaving for vacation
when I asked.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User SUpport



>From: James Murakami <address@hidden>
>Organization: .
>Keywords: 199907072254.QAA06418

>Steve Chiswell:
>
>Data from the unknown station "74626" showed up on this morning's
>DIFAX upper air plots (12Z, 7 Jul 1999). It appears to located 
>around Phoenix, AZ.  There were soundings from Phoenix last
>summer on the domestic data circuit, but the identifier was "72278".
>
>I thought perhaps it was a nearby locale like Luke Air Force base,
>but I couldn't find a WMO number for the site (just seems to go
>by "KLUF"). However, there is a chance "74626" is the same as "72278".
>
>I extracted part of this morning's coded radiosonde data from the
>Yuma, AZ area. It looks like this--
>
>USUS90 KYUM 071321
>72280 TTAA 57124 72280 99995 30265 14004 00084 ///// ///// 92776
>24058 15507 85509 18649 15014 70154 09850 09015 50587 04956 10516
>40759 15918 11012 30970 29956 12010 25097 401// }14508 20245 533//
>18507 15424 673// 01518 88999 77999=
>
>USUS90 K1Y7 071321
>74004 TTAA 57124 74004 99995 30265 14004 00084 ///// ///// 92776
>24058 15507 85509 18649 15014 70154 09850 09015 50587 04956 10516
>40759 15918 11012 30970 29956 12010 25097 401// 14508 20245 533//
>18507 15424 673// 01518 88999 77999=
>
>The data is identical except for the station identifier. The 
>first has the WMO number(72280) for the Yuma airport. The second
>WMO number(74004) applied to the Yuma Proving Ground.          
>
>On a another note involving mystery upper air stations, I noticed
>two today (18Z data). They are "74650" and "74651". The data for TTAA
>reports comes under "USUS40 KWBC", "USUS40 KBWL", and "USUS90 KPRC"
>(for WMO #74651) or "USUS90 KMRS"(for WMO #74650). 
>
>I think the stations are in Oklahoma. KBWL is Blackwell, OK. 
>KMRS is unknown. Although KPRC is Prescott, AZ, the demonstation
>profiler station Purcell, OK goes by the identifier PRC.
>
>I tried the Weather Service website for station location information
>(http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oso/site.shtml), but I came up empty.
>
>Anyway, if any piece of info comes your way, please forward it to me.
>
>James Murakami
>
>
>James Murakami
>Staff Meteorologist/Student Affairs
>Department of Atmospheric Sciences
>University of California, Los Angeles
>405 Hilgard Ave.
>Los Angeles, CA  90095-1565
>
>
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