Weather/Iowa/Instruments/CSRI4
Ames 4NW - Ioway Creek Cameron School Rd
At a school in Story County, IowaAt a school
DCP network, identified by the register
- Identifier
- CSRI4
- Latitude
- 42.07070 N
- Longitude
- 93.67260 W
- Elevation
- -
- Listed
- Automatically, on 157 reports in 128 hours over the last seven days
- Observed
- 11:00 PMCDT, 1 hour ago
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Ames 4NW - Ioway Creek Cameron School Rd Report
Rank 724 of 1,060 in Iowa, Oct 16. The 247 rank orders a state's stations by their 247 score out of 100: how reliably they report, how accurate their readings are against a reference station, how their readings pass their checks, and how they stand against the forecast.
Ranking Statistics
247 score92.7of 100
- Iowa median
- 94.7the median score of 1,060 stations
- Scoring higher
- 723stations in Iowa
- Sharing its score
- 2ranks 724 to 725
- Points deducted
- 7.33.4 arrival, 2.3 reports received, 1.6 forecast check
- Counted at the median
- Accuracy, instrument checks, forecast checknot measured at this station; Iowa median 100.0, 100.0, 83.8
- Next below
- HPTI4rank 725; behind on reports received 93.4% against 85.7%
Equal scores are ordered by the share of scheduled reports received, then the reports due in the week (the longer record first), then the median arrival, then the longest silence.
- Reports receivedweight 3593.532.7 of 35 pointsIowa median 99.0157 of 168 scheduled reports received in 7 days
- Arrivalweight 1066.06.6 of 10 pointsIowa median 82.9half its reports arrived within 27 min
- Continuityweight 10100.010.0 of 10 pointsIowa median 100.0longest silence 2.5 h, on a schedule of one report every 60 min
- Accuracyweight 20-20.0 of 20 points, at the medianIowa median 100.0-
- Instrument checksweight 15-15.0 of 15 points, at the medianIowa median 100.0-
- Forecast checkweight 10-8.4 of 10 points, at the medianIowa median 83.8-
The score is the weighted mean of its six parts, from the last 7 days. How a station is ranked sets out each part.
How each part is scored
- Reports received
- Full marks for every scheduled report received, none for none, in proportion between
- Arrival
- Full marks for a median arrival within 10 min, none at 60 min
- Continuity
- Full marks for a longest silence of 3 reports or less (3 h), none for 72 (72 h)
- Accuracy
- Full marks within 1.5 °F of its reference, typically, none beyond 8.0 °F
- Instrument checks
- Full marks for no reading failed, none for 5 per cent or more
- Forecast check
- Full marks within 2 °F of the forecast on average, none at 8 °F
- Schedule
- every houron the hour's :00 and :30
- Reports received, 24 hours
- 24 of 24100% of its schedule
- Reports received, 7 days
- 158 of 16894.0% of its schedule
- Days reported, 30 days
- -
- Longest silence, 7 days
- 2 h 30 minfrom Oct 12, 6:30 PM
- Latest report
- Oct 15, 8:30 PMlocal time
- Time to reach Storm Station
- 27 min9 in 10 within 57 min
From Storm Station's own record of every report it heard from this station.
Its schedule is one report every hour, 24 in 24 hours. Two reports in the same hour count as one received.
The ranking these charts were drawn from, as tables
| Share of scheduled reports received | Stations |
|---|---|
| 100% | 287 |
| 90 to 99% | 425 |
| 80 to 89% | 80 |
| 70 to 79% | 118 |
| 60 to 69% | 10 |
| 50 to 59% | 72 |
| 40 to 49% | 47 |
| 30 to 39% | 2 |
| 20 to 29% | 12 |
| 10 to 19% | 2 |
| 0 to 9% | 5 |
| Day | Rank | Stations ranked | Share received |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 2026 | 724 | 1,060 | 93.4% |
| Oct 15, 2026 | 723 | 1,038 | 93.4% |
| Oct 14, 2026 | 675 | 1,036 | 94.6% |
| Oct 13, 2026 | 793 | 1,035 | 94.6% |
| Oct 12, 2026 | 665 | 1,040 | 94.6% |
| Oct 11, 2026 | 669 | 1,048 | 95.2% |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 468 | 1,051 | 94.0% |
| Oct 9, 2026 | 464 | 1,051 | 94.0% |
| Oct 8, 2026 | 713 | 1,054 | 91.0% |
| Oct 7, 2026 | 865 | 1,096 | 92.2% |
| Oct 6, 2026 | 879 | 1,100 | 92.2% |
| Oct 5, 2026 | 889 | 1,089 | 92.2% |
| Oct 4, 2026 | 905 | 1,027 | 91.6% |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 927 | 1,017 | 93.3% |
| Oct 2, 2026 | 926 | 1,017 | 93.3% |
| Oct 1, 2026 | 568 | 771 | 95.0% |
| Sep 30, 2026 | 555 | 764 | 96.6% |
| Sep 29, 2026 | 578 | 758 | 95.7% |
| Sep 28, 2026 | 492 | 745 | 97.1% |
| Sep 27, 2026 | 268 | 653 | 97.8% |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 555 | 652 | 82.6% |