CWOP Information for N8XHZ-4 (AR458) in Tiffin, OH US

The following information is known about N8XHZ-4. If you think that any information is incorrect, then please follow the instructions for correcting that data item.

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Registered Location

Latitude: 41° 7' 36" N (deg min sec), 41.1268° (decimal), 4107.61N (LORAN)
Longitude: 83° 11' 1" W (deg min sec), -83.1835° (decimal), 08311.01W (LORAN)
Elevation: 232 metres (760 feet) -- validated against 234 metres (767 feet) from NED Contiguous U. S. 1/3E arc second elevation data
Location: Tiffin, OH US
County: Seneca, OH
Forecast Office: Cleveland (CLE)
Site Manager/Operator: Erik
Station type/software: Xastir 1.2.1, Oregon Scientific via wx200d

The site location should be at the mark shown -- or very close. Clicking within the map area (or you can drag the 'N8XHZ-4' marker) will display the latitude/longitude of that point.

If the displayed location (or elevation) of the weather observing location is incorrect, please drag the marker to the right location (or click in the right location), and then send the updated information. Please note that we are trying to spot either the Stevenson Screen (or equivalent) or the location where the barometric readings are taken.

NOTE: The Registered Location is the location that the station owner provided when they signed up with CWOP.

There are no photographs of the station. If you are the site operator and have pictures of this location, then please upload them to Flickr (detailed instructions) and add the two tags 'wxtagged' and 'wx:cwop=ar458'. If the picture is of the weather station itself, then please also add the 'wx:station' tag as well.

You can try to find photographs from the area surrounding the site marker by clicking on Find nearby photographs.

APRS Status

No data has been seen recently. Please check at findu.com to see if your data is being seen there.

Weather data was seen at findu.com around 367 days ago on 2011-02-10.

A recently received report from this station was

N8XHZ-4>APX121,TCPIP*,qAS,N8XHZ-1:@091433z4107.61N/08311.01W_202/004g007t009r000P000p000h39b10230XRSW

If this is not a weather report, then your station may not be transmitting weather reports, and this may be the problem. Check the recent reports at findu.com to see if any look like weather reports.

A reasonably recent weather report (368 days ago) received from this station was
N8XHZ-4>APX121,TCPIP*,qAS,N8XHZ-1:@091433z4107.61N/08311.01W_202/004g007t009r000P000p000h39b10230XRSW

Neighboring Stations

This is a list of stations that are close to this station.

You can also subscribe to an RSS feed to tell you when new stations come online in this area. Choose either within 100 miles or 250 miles . For stations covered by your Forecast Office: Cleveland (CLE) .

SiteDistanceLocation
K16G2.7 milesSouthwest Tiffin Seneca County, OH, United States of America (lat 41.0941°, long -83.2125°, altitude 239 metres)
K82D10.7 milesNortheast Green Springs Weiker, OH, United States of America (lat 41.2292°, long -83.0291°, altitude 225 metres)
KFZI11.8 milesWest Fostoria Metropolitan Airport, OH, United States of America (lat 41.1908°, long -83.3945°, altitude 229 metres)
K5D913.5 milesNortheast Clyde Bandit Field Airdrome, OH, United States of America (lat 41.2239°, long -82.9577°, altitude 245 metres)
KS2413.9 milesNortheast Fremont Sandusky County Rgnl, OH, United States of America (lat 41.2957°, long -83.0372°, altitude 202 metres)
K14G14.3 milesNorth Fremont Airport, United States of America (lat 41.3331°, long -83.1612°, altitude 202 metres)
CW790414.6 milesNorth Fremont, OH US (lat 41.3372°, long -83.2007°, altitude 201 metres) (data present)
N8FIS16.2 milesNorth Fremont, OH US (lat 41.3558°, long -83.1187°, altitude 189 metres) (data present)
W8DAG16.5 milesNortheast Clyde, OH US (lat 41.3092°, long -82.9790°, altitude 210 metres) (data present)
AN42317.4 milesSoutheast Lykens, OH, United States of America (lat 40.9173°, long -82.9982°, altitude 298 metres)

The sites marked above thus did not report continuously during the analysis period, so the offsets may (probably will) not be accurate.

Location Formats

The location is shown in three different formats. Each of these is used in some software, and is shown on some websites.

Degrees Minutes Seconds: VWS/VWSAPRS, WeatherLink 5.5, WeatherLink (5.2-5.4), WeatherView (Linux)

Decimal degrees: FreeWX, WeatherView32 (PC application)

LORAN: WeatherDisplay, WUHU, Henriksen WServer

Resources

CWOP Home: This describes the whole CWOP program and has a large amount of useful information.

CWOP Guide (PDF): This is a guide to siting and operating a CWOP station. This is a must-read document.

APRS WX Message format: This describes the actual format of the messages transmitted that carry WX information.

WXQC Mailing List: This is a mailing list where data quality issues are discussed. Assistance with software configuration can often be found here.

Topo Map Reading Guide: How to read USGS topographic maps, with a good section on reading contours.

Geographically nearby web pages: Use Geourl to find web pages that deal with locations geographically close to this site.


Overall website comments, problems etc to Philip Gladstone
Page layout last modified Wednesday, 08 February 2012
Questions for this weather station owner/operator to Erik
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