Temperature Monitoring Station:
ELKHART/ELKHART-MORTON COUNTY A., KS

Monthly Mean Temperature Data

Raw Data relative to Expected Monthly Means

Difference from Regional Expectation

Breakpoint Adjusted Annual Average Comparison

Mean Rate of Change ( °C / Century )

Raw monthly anomalies		0.85
After quality control		0.82
After breakpoint alignment		0.89
Regional expectation during same months		0.93 ± 0.10
National average during same months		0.93 ± 0.09
Global land average during same months		1.07 ± 0.03

Regional Consistency

Comparison of monthly mean station data to regional expectation

	Typical Difference (°C, 95% range)	Correlation (R value)
Raw Monthly Anomalies	± 2.0	0.89
After Quality Control	± 1.7	0.90
After Breakpoint Adjustment	± 1.5	0.92

Quality Control Summary

Months missing 10 or more days	18
Serially repeated daily or monthly values	8
Extreme local outliers	1
Regional climatology outliers	4
Abrupt jumps	0
Marked as bad or manually changed by source	0
Exceeds global climatological range	0
Isolated observations	0
Frame shift repetitions	0
TMAX / TMIN inconsistency	1
TAVG outside TMAX / TMIN range	2
Total Observations Rejected by Quality Control	23

Station ID Codes

COOP	142432
FAA	1K5
FAA	EHA
GHCND	USC00142432
GSOD	724600-99999
GSOD	724604-93076
GSOD	724604-99999
GSOD	999999-93076
ICAO	K1K5
ICAO	KEHA
NCDC	10004352
NCDC	20007247
NCDC	20007260
NWS	EHTK1
NWS	EHTK9
NWS	EKHK1
USAF	724600
USAF	724604
WBAN	93076
WMO	72460

ID codes may be repeated if the identification of the station changed during its history or if two different records were found to contain the same data, in which case the records would be merged.