CWOP Information for CW3205 (C3205) in Lewisville, TX US

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Registered Location

Latitude: 33° 2' 25" N (deg min sec), 33.0403° (decimal), 3302.42N (LORAN)
Longitude: 96° 55' 1" W (deg min sec), -96.9170° (decimal), 09655.02W (LORAN)
Elevation: 155 metres (510 feet) -- validated against 163 metres (533 feet) from NED Contiguous U. S. 1/3E arc second elevation data
Location: Lewisville, TX US
County: Denton, TX
Forecast Office: Dallas/Fort Worth (FWD)
Site Manager/Operator: Chris
Station type/software: Weather Display / Davis Vantage Pro
Website: http://www.castlehillsweather.info/

The site location should be at the mark shown -- or very close. Clicking within the map area (or you can drag the 'CW3205' 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=c3205'. 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 220 days ago on 2011-07-08.

A recently received report from this station was

CW3205>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-1:@071245z3302.42N/09655.02W_207/000g000t086r000p000P000b10119h52.WD 31

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 (220 days ago) received from this station was
CW3205>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-1:@071245z3302.42N/09655.02W_207/000g000t086r000p000P000b10119h52.WD 31

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: Dallas/Fort Worth (FWD) .

SiteDistanceLocation
KF5MEH-13.7 milesWest Lewisville, TX US (lat 33.0429°, long -96.9810°, altitude 542 metres) (data present)
DW12854.3 milesNortheast Plano, TX US (lat 33.0711°, long -96.8524°, altitude 179 metres) (data present)
DW47544.7 milesSoutheast Dallas, TX US (lat 32.9920°, long -96.8592°, altitude 186 metres) (data present)
KF694.8 milesEast Dallas Air Park-dallas, TX, United States of America (lat 33.0235°, long -96.8369°, altitude 211 metres)
CW94125.5 milesSoutheast Dallas, TX US (lat 33.0008°, long -96.8345°, altitude 198 metres) (data present)
DW38055.9 milesNortheast Frisco, TX US (lat 33.1080°, long -96.8563°, altitude 182 metres) (data present)
CW26945.9 milesWest Lewisville, TX US (lat 33.0495°, long -97.0175°, altitude 183 metres)
CW71795.9 milesSouthwest Coppell, TX US (lat 32.9655°, long -96.9663°, altitude 146 metres) (data present)
KADS6.8 milesSoutheast Dallas / Addison Airport, TX, United States (lat 32.9686°, long -96.8364°, altitude 196 metres) (data present)
WN5PFI6.9 milesSoutheast N.Dallas, TX US (lat 32.9838°, long -96.8189°, altitude 189 metres) (data present)

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 Chris
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