`ncei_station_search`

Pack: noaa-ncei · Endpoint: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/noaa-ncei/mcp

No MCP client? Call it directly: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/ncei_station_search for the schema, then POST the same URL with its arguments for the data.

Find NOAA weather stations inside a bounding box that actually hold data for a given dataset and date range, with each station’s period of record and which elements it reports. Use this to get the station id that ncei_daily_summaries needs. Sourced from the NOAA NCEI search service.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`bbox`	string	yes	Bounding box “minLon,minLat,maxLon,maxLat” (WGS84). Reordered to NCEI’s north,west,south,east form for you.
`dataset`	string	no	Dataset id (default “daily-summaries”)
`startDate`	string	no	Earliest date the station must cover, YYYY-MM-DD
`endDate`	string	no	Latest date the station must cover, YYYY-MM-DD
`dataTypes`	string	no	Comma-separated element codes the station must report, e.g. “TMAX,PRCP”
`limit`	number	no	Max stations to return (default 25, max 200)

Example call

Arguments

{
  "bbox": "-118.7,33.7,-117.9,34.5",
  "dataset": "daily-summaries",
  "startDate": "2026-01-01",
  "endDate": "2026-03-01",
  "limit": 5
}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/noaa-ncei/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"ncei_station_search","arguments":{"bbox":"-118.7,33.7,-117.9,34.5","dataset":"daily-summaries","startDate":"2026-01-01","endDate":"2026-03-01","limit":5}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const pipeworx = new Pipeworx();

const result = await pipeworx.call('ncei_station_search', {
  "bbox": "-118.7,33.7,-117.9,34.5",
  "dataset": "daily-summaries",
  "startDate": "2026-01-01",
  "endDate": "2026-03-01",
  "limit": 5
});

Connect

Add this to your MCP client config, or use one-click install buttons:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "noaa-ncei": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/noaa-ncei/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

Regenerated from source · build September 18, 2026

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