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WIND_INFERRED 70%

Runway 17 — favored by the wind (12 kt at 160° true)

Based on wind only — no traffic or ATIS to confirm. No D-ATIS feed here — a voice ATIS/AWOS may exist; check the frequency. No ADS-B traffic data available.

certainty: 70% evidence: WEAK no tower now

Wind 160° true at 12 kt · VFR · 11 min old · from KOMA (28.2 nm away)

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17 76% 2200 ft · 12 kt head, 3 kt x-left

11 24% 1200 ft · 8 kt head, 9 kt x-right

29 <1% 1200 ft · 8 kt TAIL, 9 kt x-left

35 <1% 2200 ft · 12 kt TAIL, 3 kt x-right

Why — evidence behind this answer

Runway 17

WIND 12 kt headwind, 3 kt left crosswind 11 min ago +2.58
PRIOR runway length 2200 ft +0.06

Runway 11

WIND 8 kt headwind, 9 kt right crosswind 11 min ago +1.55
PRIOR runway length 1200 ft -0.06

Runway 29

WIND 8 kt TAILWIND, 9 kt left crosswind 11 min ago -11.12
PRIOR runway length 1200 ft -0.06

Runway 35

WIND 12 kt TAILWIND, 3 kt right crosswind 11 min ago -21.53
PRIOR runway length 2200 ft +0.06

Sources consulted

source	status	age	note
D_ATIS	UNAVAILABLE		No D-ATIS at this field
METAR	OK	11 min	Nearest station KOMA (28.2 nm away)
ADSB	UNAVAILABLE		No ADS-B track history here yet
NOTAM	OK
CIFP	NOT_CONFIGURED		Instrument procedures: phase 4

Recent operations

No operations observed in the last hour. (No ADS-B track history here yet)

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NE69 field & runways

Browns, Weeping Water, Nebraska. Field elevation 1182 ft. Non-towered (NON-ATCT). Private use. Magnetic variation 6.0°E on record, 2.1°E today.

The FAA's variation of record is the number this field was surveyed against; the second is where north points now, from WMM2025. It is moving 0.065°/year west — about 1° every 15 years — which is why runway numbers eventually stop matching their pavement.

Runway data from the FAA NASR 01 Oct 2026 cycle. Where NASR locates both thresholds, the true heading is the bearing between them rather than NASR's whole-degree alignment. Magnetic is that heading against *today's* declination from WMM2025, not the field's variation of record — so it can differ from the chart by the gap between the two shown above. The number painted on the runway is the one ATC uses.
Runway	True	Magnetic	Number	Length	Surface	Pattern
11	112.2°	110.1°	matches	1,200 ft	TURF	left
17	173.7°	171.6°	matches rule gives runway 18 in ~52 yr	2,200 ft	TURF	left
29	292.2°	290.1°	matches	1,200 ft	TURF	left
35	353.7°	351.6°	matches rule gives runway 36 in ~52 yr	2,200 ft	TURF	left

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