CWOP Information for DW1019 (D1019) in Yorktown, TX US

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Registered Location

Latitude: 29° 3' 1" N (deg min sec), 29.0502° (decimal), 2903.01N (LORAN)
Longitude: 97° 35' 0" W (deg min sec), -97.5833° (decimal), 09735.00W (LORAN)
Elevation: 134 meters (439 feet) -- validated against 112 meters (368 feet) from NED Contiguous U. S. 1/3E arc second elevation data
Location: Yorktown, TX US
County: DeWitt, TX
Forecast Office: Austin/San Antonio (EWX)
Station type/software: Virtual Weather Station

The site location should be at the mark shown -- or very close. Clicking within the map area (or you can drag the 'DW1019' 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=d1019'. 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 30 days ago on 2008-12-10.

A reasonably recent weather report (31 days ago) received from this station was
DW1019>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-2:@090658z2903.01N/09735.00W_135/012g012t070r000P000p000h84b10045v

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: Austin/San Antonio (EWX) .

SiteDistanceLocation
CW39340.8 milesNorthwest Yorktown, TX US (lat 29.0587°, long -97.5912°, altitude 134 meters) (data present)
2TS821.0 milesNorthwest Bailey (lat 29.2205°, long -97.8717°, altitude 137 meters)
K2R923.1 milesSouthwest Karnes Co (lat 28.8250°, long -97.8656°, altitude 88 meters)
CW846625.1 milesSoutheast Schroeder, TX US (lat 28.8445°, long -97.2422°, altitude 35 meters) (data present)
KT8532.4 milesNortheast Yoakum Muni (lat 29.3132°, long -97.1384°, altitude 111 meters)
KT2033.9 milesNorth Gonzales Muni (lat 29.5280°, long -97.4614°, altitude 107 meters)
XS7134.9 milesSouthwest San Christoval Ranch (lat 28.7481°, long -98.0450°, altitude 117 meters)
KSEQ40.7 milesNorthwest Randolph Afb Aux (lat 29.5658°, long -97.9083°, altitude 160 meters)
KD5PMU41.6 milesSoutheast Victoria, TX US (lat 28.8167°, long -96.9500°, altitude 11 meters)
KVCT41.6 milesEast Victoria Regiona, TX, United States (lat 28.8614°, long -96.9303°, altitude 36 meters) (data present)

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.


Website comments, problems etc to
Philip Gladstone

Last modified Wednesday, 07 January 2009
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