Cookson (COOK)

  • Station Number: 31
  • Location: 7 miles NNW of Marble City
  • County: Cherokee
  • Commissioned: 01/01/1994
  • Latitude: 35.680010° / 35° 40' 48" N
  • Longitude: -94.848960° / 94° 50' 56" W
  • Elevation: 299 meters above Mean Sea Level (981 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 01/01/1994

Maximum air temperature (°F) 112 08/03/2011
Minimum air temperature (°F) -12 02/16/2021
Maximum daily rainfall (in.) 6.57 06/21/2000
Maximum monthly rainfall (in.) 16.82 05/2015
Maximum annual rainfall (in.) 85.66 2015
Maximum wind speed (mph) 69.0 11/14/2020



Soil Characteristics

  Texture Class % Sand % Silt % Clay
5 cm depth Loam 36.2 46.1 17.6
25 cm depth Silt Loam 21 60.8 18.2
60 cm depth NA NA NA NA
75 cm depth NA NA NA NA