City Location File (.cty)

The city database file contain reporting station location information.

FORMAT

The format for this database file is as follows:

longname    st cn iiiii MpU lat lon elev wmo [###]

Where:

longname -- Station name. (max 15 characters)
st -- Abbreviated state or region name. (2 characters-starts in column 17)
cn -- Abbreviated country name. (2 characters-starts in column 20)
iiiii -- ICAO station identifier. (up to 5 characters-starts column 23)
M -- Indicator for forecast model output station. (Obsolete-column 29)
p -- Priority used for display filtering purposes. (column 30)
1 is the highest priority, 7 is the lowest, 9 represents no priority
U -- Indicator for an upper air station. (Obsolete-column 31)
lat -- Latitude in degrees (north is positive)
lon -- Longitude in degrees (east is positive)
elev -- Elevation in meters
wmo -- 5 digit WMO station identifier (99999 represents no assigned numeric identifier). This is the site ID for radar data.
### -- optional numeric field (used for station occurrence)

EXAMPLES

Here is a sample of some stations from the sao.cty file:

Phoenix/Luke AF AZ US  KLUF  5   33.53 -112.38   332 99999
Philadelphia In PA US  KPHL  2   39.88  -75.25     9 72408
Petersburg (AWO VA US  KPTB  4   37.18  -77.52    59 99999
Petersburg      AK US  PAPG  4   56.82 -132.97     0 70386
Peoria Regional IL US  KPIA  2   40.67  -89.68   202 72532
Pensacola Regio FL US  KPNS  4   30.47  -87.18    37 99999
Pendleton Munic OR US  KPDT  3   45.68 -118.85   456 72688
Pelly Bay 1     NT CN  CWRF  3   69.43  -89.73   325 71918
Pellston/Emmet  MI US  KPLN  4   45.57  -84.80   219 99999

**City Database Files**
Database	Type of Stations	Location
sao.cty	Surface SAO/METAR	Global
sao_all.cty	Surface SAO/METAR	Global+non-reporting
upa.cty	Upper air	Global
upa_all.cty	Upper air	Global+non-reporting
syn.cty	Surface Synoptic	Global
syn_all.cty	Surface Synoptic	Global+non-reporting
rad.cty	NEXRAD Radar	United States
mos.cty	Model Output	North America
shef.cty	SHEF	United States

City Location File (.cty)

FORMAT

EXAMPLES

SEE ALSO