Cape Kennedy Thunderstorms Data contains an account of all thunderstorms reported in weather observations taken at Cape Kennedy Air Force Station, Florida between 1957 and 1972. Elements recorded include date and time thunderstorm began and ended, quadrant(s) in which the storm was first and last observed, direction of movement, intensity, frequency of thunder, presence of more than one storm, lightning characteristics and intensity. Wind speed (sustained and gusts), wind shift, pressure tendency, and minimum ceiling hight and visibility are also included.

Digitized data taken from original weather observations taken at Cape Kennedy Air Force Station, Florida. Elements recorded are wind speed and direction, temperature, dew point, pressure, and possibly more. Observations were taken every three hours. Records are contained in standard 80 character record lengths. The reference manual to indicate the individual fields and their lengths has not been found. It is possible to identify most of the fields, but some, particularly later in the record, have not been identified.

Digitized data taken from Wind Gust Charts. Record contains hourly wind directions and speed with a peak wind recorded at the end of each day. Sorted by: station, year, month, day, hour. Overview: Standard text files with a 80 character record length. Year, month, and day are stored in separate 2 character fields ELEMENT: Station Number LENGTH: 4 ELEMENT: Card Number LENGTH: 2 ELEMENT: Year LENGTH: 2 ELEMENT: Month LENGTH: 2 ELEMENT: Day LENGTH: 2 ELEMENT: Level LENGTH: 1 ELEMENT: 10 Minutes +- 5 Minutes | Min Speed +- LENGTH: 4 ELEMENT: 10 Minutes +- 5 Minutes | Mean Speed +- LENGTH: 4 ELEMENT: 10 Minutes +- 5 Minutes | Max Speed +- LENGTH: 4 ELEMENT: Hourly +- 30 Minutes | Min Speed +- LENGTH: 4 ELEMENT: Hourly +- 30 Minutes | Max Speed +- LENGTH: 4 ELEMENT: Code LENGTH: 1 ELEMENT: Hour LENGTH: 2 ELEMENT: 10 Minutes +- 5 Minutes | Min Speed +- LENGTH: 4 ELEMENT: 10 Minutes +- 5 Minutes | Mean Speed +- LENGTH: 4 ELEMENT: 10 Minutes +- 5 Minutes | Max Speed +- LENGTH: 4 ELEMENT: Hourly +- 30 Minutes | Min Speed +- LENGTH: 4 ELEMENT: Hourly +- 30 Minutes | Max Speed +- LENGTH: 4 ELEMENT: Code LENGTH: 1

Digitized data taken from Wind Gust Charts. Record contains hourly wind directions and speed with a peak wind recorded at the end of each day. Sorted by: station, year, month, day, hour. Overview: Standard text files with a 80 character record length. Year, month, and day are stored in separate 2 character fields ELEMENT: Station Number LENGTH: 4 ELEMENT: Card Number LENGTH: 2 ELEMENT: Year LENGTH: 2 ELEMENT: Month LENGTH: 2 ELEMENT: Day LENGTH: 2 ELEMENT: Level LENGTH: 1 ELEMENT: 10 Minutes +- 5 Minutes | Min Speed +- LENGTH: 4 ELEMENT: 10 Minutes +- 5 Minutes | Mean Speed +- LENGTH: 4 ELEMENT: 10 Minutes +- 5 Minutes | Max Speed +- LENGTH: 4 ELEMENT: Hourly +- 30 Minutes | Min Speed +- LENGTH: 4 ELEMENT: Hourly +- 30 Minutes | Max Speed +- LENGTH: 4 ELEMENT: Code LENGTH: 1 ELEMENT: Hour LENGTH: 2 ELEMENT: 10 Minutes +- 5 Minutes | Min Speed +- LENGTH: 4 ELEMENT: 10 Minutes +- 5 Minutes | Mean Speed +- LENGTH: 4 ELEMENT: 10 Minutes +- 5 Minutes | Max Speed +- LENGTH: 4 ELEMENT: Hourly +- 30 Minutes | Min Speed +- LENGTH: 4 ELEMENT: Hourly +- 30 Minutes | Max Speed +- LENGTH: 4 ELEMENT: Code LENGTH: 1

A meteorological data system was designed, assembled, and installed to obtain, on a continuous basis, wind and temperature information at 12 levels on a television transmitting tower 1434 ft in height. Measurement and recording of atmospheric variables was accomplished entirely automatically, the output being in the form of punched paper tape and a record prepared by an electric typewriter. The tower used as an instrument support was triangular in cross section, measuring 12 ft on a side with no taper, was extensively guyed, contained a 2000-lb capacity elevator, and was capped by a triangular superstructure 75 ft on a side and about 14 ft high.

A meteorological data system was designed, assembled, and installed to obtain, on a continuous basis, wind and temperature information at 12 levels on a television transmitting tower 1434 ft in height. Measurement and recording of atmospheric variables was accomplished entirely automatically, the output being in the form of punched paper tape and a record prepared by an electric typewriter. The tower used as an instrument support was triangular in cross section, measuring 12 ft on a side with no taper, was extensively guyed, contained a 2000-lb capacity elevator, and was capped by a triangular superstructure 75 ft on a side and about 14 ft high.

The dataset consists primarily of U.S. surface airways observations (SAO) data beginning in 1965 and extending through 1981. Note that a few stations have already had certain years within this 1965-81 period re-keyed as hourly. For these stations, only a subset of the period was keyed. In addition, other stations did not have data keyed at all during this period, or during the periods immediately before or after the 1965-81 range. These stations data have been keyed to as thoroughly as possible complete their entire period of record back to July, 1948. The major data variables are as follows: WBAN Identification Station Number, observational type, ceiling and cloud, visibility, present weather, temperature, relative humidity, wind, pressure and precipitation. The observations are generally recorded for the 24 hour period midnight to midnight. The keying format was designed to reflect the data as entered on the page to make keying easier for the key entry personnel, who were not trained meteorological technicians. The "raw" observations which comprise this dataset will be quality checked to include data adjustments and converted to NCDC's Integrated Surface Hourly (ISH) format.

The dataset consists primarily of U.S. surface airways observations (SAO) data beginning in 1965 and extending through 1981. Note that a few stations have already had certain years within this 1965-81 period re-keyed as hourly. For these stations, only a subset of the period was keyed. In addition, other stations did not have data keyed at all during this period, or during the periods immediately before or after the 1965-81 range. These stations data have been keyed to as thoroughly as possible complete their entire period of record back to July, 1948. The major data variables are as follows: WBAN Identification Station Number, observational type, ceiling and cloud, visibility, present weather, temperature, relative humidity, wind, pressure and precipitation. The observations are generally recorded for the 24 hour period midnight to midnight. The keying format was designed to reflect the data as entered on the page to make keying easier for the key entry personnel, who were not trained meteorological technicians. The "raw" observations which comprise this dataset will be quality checked to include data adjustments and converted to NCDC's Integrated Surface Hourly (ISH) format.

The dataset consists of hourly U.S. surface airways observations (SAO). These observations extend as far back as 1928, from the time when commercial aviation began in the United States and meteorological observing stations were established at many airports (although occasionally, early-period SAO's were taken at U.S. Weather Bureau city offices). For most stations, this dataset extends through June of 1948. The major data variables are as follows: WBAN Station Identification Number, observational type, ceiling and cloud, visibility, present weather data, temperature, wind and pressure. The observations are generally recorded for the 24-hour period midnight to midnight, although many stations did not record 24-hour observations, especially early in the period when commercial aviation was just getting started. Two output keying formats were created to adjust to an observational form change during the period. One format was generally used for years 1928-33, and the other for sets from around 1934 through June of 1948. Each keying format was designed to reflect the data as entered on the observational form for ease of keying by key entry personnel, who were not trained meteorological technicians. The "raw" observations which comprise the DSI-3851 dataset were quality checked, to include data adjustments, and converted to NCDC's Integrated Surface Hourly (ISH) format. The complimentary data to this collection can be found in the Surface Weather Observation 1001 Forms (Keyed) collection.