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Tower Winds - Cape Kennedy

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Catalog Last Checked: August 03, 2026 at 06:46 AM | Dataset Last Updated: December 31, 1969 at 12:00 AM
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

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temporal 1967-03-16T00:00:00+00:00/1968-06-12T00:00:00+00:00
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title Tower Winds - Cape Kennedy

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