Re: [ldm-users] 20090318: MMM (Missing METAR Mystery)

• To: "Hoeth, Brian R. (JSC-WS8)[NOAA]" <brian.r.hoeth@xxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: [ldm-users] 20090318: MMM (Missing METAR Mystery)
• From: Robert Mullenax <Robert.Mullenax@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:58:12 +0000

Yep, we have it also in our GEMPAK file (NOAAPort feed):

Hoeth, Brian R. (JSC-WS8)[NOAA] wrote:

Yep, very odd indeed.  We have the 2351 KALB ob in both our McIDAS and AWIPS 
systems.

Brian Hoeth
NWS Spaceflight Meteorology Group
Johnson Space Center
Houston, TX

281-483-3246

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To: Tom Yoksas
Subject: Re: [ldm-users] 20090318: MMM (Missing METAR Mystery)

This very odd.  The data showed up in my GEMPAK file.  The decoder uses the 
pattern:

WMO     ^S[AP]

However, it is not in my data file which uses the pattern:

DDS|IDS|EXP     ^S[AP].* .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])

I wonder if there wasn't a corrupt header.



Tom Yoksas wrote:

Hi Kevin,

re:

I noticed that the KALB 00Z METAR from 3/18 did not appear in our data feed. I checked a site with a NOAAport satellite, and it also did not have the product. The ob did show up on the tgftp.nws.noaa.gov METAR data collective, however.

I just checked to see what KALB METAR data has been received and decoded on two toplevel IDD relay nodes that we maintain, and both are missing the 23:51 UTC observation for yesterday, Tuesday, March 17.

This is the observation that would have been received at 00 UTC.

Here is a McIDAS SFCLIST listing for the data processed on the toplevel NOAAPort ingest and IDD relay machine we maintain at the NSF/ATM offices in Arlington, Virginia, idd.cise-nsf.gov:

 Day Time StCo  Stn   T  Td  Dir Spd Gus AltSet  Vis  Weather  Ceil
     hhmm        id  [F] [F]     [ kts ]  [mb]   [mi]
---- ---- ---- ----- --- --- --- --- --- ------ ----- -------- -----
  17 1451 NYUS KALB   43  30 190   6     1025.7  9.00
  17 1551 NYUS KALB   47  29       3     1025.4  9.00
  17 1651 NYUS KALB   50  28       5     1025.1 10.00
  17 1751 NYUS KALB   53  28 160   6     1024.0 10.00
  17 1851 NYUS KALB   55  28       4     1023.4 10.00
  17 1951 NYUS KALB   56  26       3     1022.3 10.00
  17 2051 NYUS KALB   57  25 000   0     1022.0 10.00
  17 2151 NYUS KALB   56  26 180   5     1021.3 10.00
  17 2251 NYUS KALB   54  26 180   6     1021.7 10.00

  18 0051 NYUS KALB   46  27 160   4     1022.3 10.00
  18 0151 NYUS KALB   49  25 170   7     1022.3 10.00
  18 0251 NYUS KALB   48  26 170  10     1022.0 10.00
  18 0351 NYUS KALB   45  27 180  11  17 1022.0 10.00
  18 0451 NYUS KALB   44  27 180   7     1021.7 10.00
  18 0551 NYUS KALB   43  28 160   9     1021.7 10.00
  18 0651 NYUS KALB   42  28 180   9     1021.7 10.00
  18 0751 NYUS KALB   41  28 170   7     1021.3 10.00
  18 0851 NYUS KALB   41  28 160   9     1020.7 10.00
  18 0951 NYUS KALB   40  27 180  11     1020.0 10.00
  18 1051 NYUS KALB   40  28 180   9     1019.6 10.00
  18 1151 NYUS KALB   40  29 180  11  18 1019.6 10.00
  18 1251 NYUS KALB   42  31 180  15     1019.3  8.00
  18 1351 NYUS KALB   48  34 180  13  19 1018.3  7.00
Number of reports = 23
sfclist.k: done

This listing, which was generated at 14:15 UTC, represents the last 24 hours of decoded METAR observations for KALB. As you can see, the

23:51 UTC KALB obs is missing.

Did anyone else receive this METAR? If not, does anyone have any idea as to what might have happened?

No, sorry.

Cheers,

Tom
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  • [ldm-users] 20090318: MMM (Missing METAR Mystery)
    • From: Tom Yoksas
  • Re: [ldm-users] 20090318: MMM (Missing METAR Mystery)
    • From: Hoeth, Brian R. (JSC-WS8)[NOAA]