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<div class="moz-signature">Hi Gilbert, <br>
<br>
Do you have everything you need now? Is it reading STNDB.USER
correctly? We do have an updated version of STNDB.CORE from
December 2025, if that will help. <br>
<br>
Becky<br>
<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/19/2026 10:09 PM, Sebenste,
Gilbert wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">OK. I did that, and discovered that I had
nearly 200 missing stations in the database. In
/home/mcidas/data, I see:<br>
<br>
-rwxrwxr-x 2 mcidas mcidas 7094900 Dec 31 2022 STNDB.CORE*<br>
<br>
And yet, I had a bunch missing from 2017-2026…and probably
further back, that I put in my
<br>
/home/mcidas/workdata/STNDB.USER. That’s odd, since it was
supposedly updated in 2022 (shrug).<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Gilbert
Sebenste<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Meteorology
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 18, 2026 8:37 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Sebenste, Gilbert <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:sebensteg@xxxxxxx";><sebensteg@xxxxxxx></a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:mcidas-x@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";>mcidas-x@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [External] Re: [mcidas-x] How can I add
new stations to the surface station
database?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Gilbert,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">From the
McIDAS-X docs:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="gmail-body-text">STNPLOT uses the station
database files <strong><span
style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">STNDB.CORE</span></strong>,
<strong><span
style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">STNDB.SITE</span></strong>
and
<strong><span
style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">STNDB.USER</span></strong>.
The
<strong><span
style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">.CORE</span></strong>
file is supplied with McIDAS-X and should not be
modified. The
<strong><span
style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">.USER</span></strong>
file overrides the
<strong><span
style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">.SITE</span></strong>
file, which overrides the
<strong><span
style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">.CORE</span></strong>
file. This order of precedence allows you or your site
to change existing stations and/or add new stations in
your
<strong><span
style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">.USER</span></strong>
or <strong>
<span
style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">.SITE</span></strong>
file.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-body-text"><a name="pgfId-1070491"
moz-do-not-send="true"></a>To create a <strong><span
style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">.USER</span></strong>
or
<strong><span
style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">.SITE</span></strong>
file, first run a command similar to the following to
create the file in the first writable
<strong><span
style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">MCPATH</span></strong>
directory.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span
style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">STNLIST
KMSN FORM=USER DEV=T STNDB.USER
A</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-body-text"><a name="pgfId-1070492"
moz-do-not-send="true"></a><a name="pgfId-1070493"
moz-do-not-send="true"></a>The file contains one
long line that defines the data for station KMSN. An
equal sign (=) denotes the value of each of the 10
fields (IDN, ID, LATLON, ULATLON, ELE, UELE, ST, CO,
NAME, and DATATYPE). Replace the values in the KMSN
entry with those for your station and add lines as
needed for additional stations. Entries do not have to
include all ten fields. The required fields are LATLON
and at least one of the following: ID, IDN, USERID.
Other fields like CO, ST and NAME are useful but not
required. Note that you
<u>must</u> follow the one-entry-per-line format for
all stations in your <strong>
<span
style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">.USER</span></strong>
and <strong><span
style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">.SITE</span></strong>
files. Line breaks are not permitted.<o:p></o:p></p>
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href="https://www.ssec.wisc.edu/mcidas/doc/users_guide/current/stnplot.html";
moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.ssec.wisc.edu/mcidas/doc/users_guide/current/stnplot.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">That is just from one cursory
search. The long and short of it is you do not edit the
.CORE file, you create a .SITE and/or a .USER
file.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hope this helps,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-Mike<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 8:29<span
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Sebenste, Gilbert <<a href="mailto:sebensteg@xxxxxxx";
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">sebensteg@xxxxxxx</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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everyone,<br>
<br>
STNDB.CORE is a binary file, and can’t be updated
with new stations. Is there another file I can use
to add to the new stations that have come online
since early 2024?<o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt">Gilbert Sebenste</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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