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AWDN Nebraska Station Name Changes
Author: Jamie Lahowetz - High Plains Regional Climate Center - AWDN Manager
Published: 2017-06-02 17:49:01
Updated:
The Automated Weather Data Network will be changing the names of Nebraska stations. When using the Classic system, users will see a different name than what they may be used to. Below is a lookup table. In it you can locate the AWDN id or the Legacy Station name and find its corresponding Official Station name.
Why are the names changing?
The Nebraska State Climate Office is renaming their stations using a geolocation method. The rules are as follows (from Stonie Cooper - NSCO Mesonet Manager):
Stations not located within the city limits of Omaha or Lincoln will be named according to the following rules:
Location name will be the closest village, town, or city, using the closest post office associated with this feature, based upon the United States Board of Geographic Names database. An NSCO zip code database will be updated once a year with data from BGN, however, once a name is assigned using the rules outlined here, it will stay fixed as long as the station exists, regardless if a post office is moved or closed.
If the station is located more than 0.5 miles from a post office, a distance and direction suffix will be added to the name that will provide the closest whole mile and cardinal direction from the post office to where the station is located. Multiple stations that have the same name by these rules will be given an additional suffix identifier using Greek letters, starting with Alpha.
Lincoln and Omaha stations will be named using first the city name, then the block number of the closest North/South street, and then the closest North/South street.
To keep the AWDN system stations parallel with that of its cooperating states, the Nebraska station names were changed. This does not impact any other state’s station names.
Will this impact the data?
No. The data being stored will come from the same automated observation station that it did before.
|
AWDN Id |
NSCO Legacy Name |
NSCO Official Name |
|
A250059 |
Ainsworth |
Ainsworth 2NE |
|
A250148 |
Alliance North |
Alliance 6NW |
|
A250138 |
Alliance West |
Angora 13N |
|
A250259 |
Arapahoe Prairie |
Arthur 10SW |
|
A250369 |
Arthur |
Arthur 11NE |
|
A250529 |
Barta |
Long Pine 20S |
|
A250629 |
Beatrice |
Plymouth 4E |
|
A250829 |
Binfield |
Wood River 5SE |
|
A251229 |
Brule |
Brule 4SW |
|
A251228 |
Brule Platte Valley |
Brule 6SW |
|
A251249 |
Brunswick |
Brunswick 3NE |
|
A251549 |
Cedar Point |
Keystone 3W Beta |
|
A251569 |
Central City |
Central City 3N |
|
A251562 |
Central City Airport |
Central City 3W |
|
A251227 |
Brule North Table |
Big Springs 8NE |
|
A251949 |
Cozad |
Cozad 8N |
|
A252109 |
Curtis Agriculture Station |
Curtis 1N |
|
A252319 |
Dickens |
Dickens 9N |
|
A252599 |
Elgin |
Elgin 6W |
|
A252939 |
Firth |
Firth 3N |
|
A253059 |
Fox |
Kearney 5E |
|
A253299 |
Gibbon |
Gibbon 4S |
|
A250588 |
Goehner 2S |
Goehner 2S |
|
A253359 |
Gordon |
Gordon 4SE |
|
A253369 |
Gothenburg |
Gothenburg 2NW |
|
A251589 |
Chalkrock |
Fordyce 4N |
|
A251590 |
Chambers 4S |
Chambers 4S |
|
A251599 |
Champion |
Champion 5SE |
|
A257899 |
Clay Center |
Harvard 4SW |
|
A256019 |
Concord |
Concord 2E |
|
A253399 |
Grant |
Grant 3E |
|
A253419 |
Grant 1E |
Grant 1E |
|
A253479 |
Gudmundsen Sandhills Laboratory |
Whitman 5NE |
|
A253549 |
Halsey |
Dunning 6NW |
|
A253615 |
Harrison 4NW |
Harrison 4NW |
|
A254699 |
Havelock |
Walton 5NW |
|
A253829 |
Higgins Ranch |
Naper 12SW |
|
A253919 |
Holdrege |
Ragan 5W |
|
A253929 |
Holdrege 4N |
Holdrege 5N |
|
A253409 |
Grand Island |
Alda 3W |
|
A254119 |
Indian Cave State Park |
Nemaha 4SE |
|
A254339 |
Kearney |
Kearney 3E |
|
A254459 |
Kingsley Dam |
Keystone 3W Alpha |
|
A254669 |
Lexington |
Lexington 1S |
|
A254670 |
Lexington 3S |
Lexington 4S |
|
A254759 |
Lincoln Haymarket Park |
Lincoln 1000 N 6th |
|
A254739 |
Lincoln Highlands Golf Course |
Lincoln 5500 NW 20th |
|
A254809 |
Lincoln IANR |
Lincoln 1500 N 45th |
|
A254749 |
Lincoln Riley Elementary School |
Lincoln 1400 S Cotner |
|
A255319 |
McCook |
McCook 4NE |
|
A255369 |
Mead |
Ithaca 3E |
|
A255367 |
Mead Agronomy Farm |
Memphis 5N |
|
A255368 |
Mead Turf Farm |
Mead 4S |
|
A255399 |
Merna |
Merna 2SW |
|
A255479 |
Merritt |
Mullen 30N |
|
A254758 |
Lincoln 10th and Military Road |
Lincoln 1700 N 10th |
|
A254769 |
Lincoln 27th and Old Cheney Road |
Lincoln 5700 S 27th |
|
A254709 |
Lincoln 93rd and Pioneers Blvd |
Walton 2SW |
|
A254719 |
Lincoln Country Club |
Lincoln 3600 S 20th |
|
A254729 |
Lincoln Fire Station 12 |
Walton 2W |
|
A255569 |
Minden |
Axtell 5NE |
|
A255599 |
Mitchell Farms |
Scottsbluff 6NW |
|
A255649 |
Monroe |
Duncan 2W |
|
A255819 |
Nebraska City |
Julian 4E |
|
A255829 |
Nebraska City 2N |
Nebraska City 3NW |
|
A255929 |
Newport |
Newport 3W |
|
A256079 |
North Platte |
North Platte 3SW |
|
A256299 |
O'Neill |
Emmet 3E |
|
A256149 |
Oakland |
Oakland 4W |
|
A256339 |
Ord |
Ord 2N |
|
A256489 |
Panhandle |
Scottsbluff 5NW |
|
A256569 |
Pawnee |
Pawnee City 7S |
|
A257079 |
Red Cloud |
Guide Rock 3E |
|
A257119 |
Rising City |
Rising City 2W |
|
A257249 |
Rogers Farm |
Eagle 3NW Alpha |
|
A257519 |
Sal |
Tryon 9E Alpha |
|
A257529 |
Sal Number 2 |
Tryon 9E Beta |
|
A257679 |
Scottsbluff |
Scottsbluff 2NW |
|
A257779 |
Shelton |
Shelton 2SW |
|
A257839 |
Sidney |
Sidney 2NW |
|
A257849 |
Silverthorn |
Broadwater 6SE |
|
A258109 |
Smithfield |
Smithfield 2E |
|
A258039 |
Sparks |
Sparks 5NE |
|
A258449 |
Tarnov |
Platte Center 5NW |
|
A254338 |
UNK Kearney |
Kearney 2W |
|
A259301 |
Wausa 3SW |
Wausa 2SW |
|
A259209 |
West Point |
West Point 2W |
|
A259409 |
Wood River |
Wood River 2N |
|
A259519 |
York |
York 2W |