Erick (ERIC)

  • Station Number: 35
  • Location: 4 miles ESE of Erick
  • County: Beckham
  • Commissioned: 01/01/1994
  • Latitude: 35.204940° / 35° 12' 17" N
  • Longitude: -99.803440° / 99° 48' 12" W
  • Elevation: 603 meters above Mean Sea Level (1,978 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 Final Temperature at 25 cm under Native Vegetation (FT25)
  • 229L Soil Moisture Final Temperature at 60 cm under Native Vegetation (FT60)
  • 229L Soil Moisture Starting Temperature at 5 cm under Native Vegetation (ST05)
  • 229L Soil Moisture Starting Temperature at 25 cm under Native Vegetation (ST25)
  • 229L Soil Moisture Starting Temperature at 60 cm under Native Vegetation (ST60)
  • Thermocouple Reference Temperature (TREF)

Site Extremes Site Extremes since commissioning on 01/01/1994

Maximum air temperature (°F) 115 06/26/2011
Minimum air temperature (°F) -9 02/16/2021
Maximum daily rainfall (in.) 5.70 09/10/2003
Maximum monthly rainfall (in.) 12.73 05/2019
Maximum annual rainfall (in.) 42.62 2015
Maximum wind speed (mph) 79.1 05/29/2018



Soil Characteristics

  Texture Class % Sand % Silt % Clay
5 cm depth Sandy Loam 63.5 22.6 13.8
25 cm depth Sandy Loam 57.4 26.3 16.3
60 cm depth Loam 42.2 33.9 23.9
75 cm depth Clay Loam 37.6 35.3 27.1