Newport (NEWP)

  • Station Number: 123
  • Location: 7 miles WNW of Ardmore
  • County: Carter
  • Commissioned: 10/02/2002
  • Latitude: 34.228100° / 34° 13' 41" N
  • Longitude: -97.201420° / 97° 12' 5" W
  • Elevation: 283 meters above Mean Sea Level (928 feet )

Variables Measured Every 5 Minutes

  • Station Battery Voltage (BATV)
  • Barometric Pressure at 0.75 m (PRES)
  • Rain since midnight UTC at 0.6m (RAIN)
  • Relative Humidity at 1.5 m (RELH)
  • Solar Radiation (SRAD)
  • Air Temperature at 9 m (TA9M)
  • Air Temperature at 1.5 m (TAIR)
  • Supplemental Air Temperature (TSLO)
  • Wind Direction at 10 m (WDIR)
  • Wind Direction Standard Deviation at 10 m (WDSD)
  • Maximum Wind Speed at 10 m (WMAX)
  • Maximum Wind Speed at 2 m (WMX2)
  • Wind Speed at 2 m (WS2M)
  • Wind Speed at 10 m (WSPD)
  • Wind Speed Standard Deviation at 10 m (WSSD)
  • Vector Wind Speed at 10 m (WVEC)

Variables Measured Every 15 Minutes

  • Soil Temperature at 10 cm under Bare Soil (TB10)
  • Soil Temperature at 5 cm under Native Vegetation (TS05)
  • Soil Temperature at 10 cm under Native Vegetation (TS10)

Variables Measured Every 30 Minutes

  • 229L Soil Moisture Final Temperature at 5 cm under Native Vegetation (FT05)
  • 229L Soil Moisture Starting Temperature at 5 cm under Native Vegetation (ST05)
  • Thermocouple Reference Temperature (TREF)

Site Extremes Site Extremes since commissioning on 10/02/2002

Maximum air temperature (°F) 111 08/03/2011
Minimum air temperature (°F) -10 02/16/2021
Maximum daily rainfall (in.) 10.49 06/17/2015
Maximum monthly rainfall (in.) 19.06 05/2015
Maximum annual rainfall (in.) 75.60 2015
Maximum wind speed (mph) 81.3 04/22/2020



Soil Characteristics

  Texture Class % Sand % Silt % Clay
5 cm depth Sandy Loam 53.6 41.4 5
25 cm depth Sandy Loam 69.3 21.3 9.4
60 cm depth NA NA NA NA
75 cm depth NA NA NA NA