19990112: GARP menu

>From: Anthony Rockwood - MSCD Meteorology <address@hidden>
>Organization: Metropolitan State College of Denver
>Keywords: 199901121930.MAA17208 GARP menus NWX

Tony-

>GARP is running fine except some of the selections in the menus are not
>the same as in Wxbox.  The ones that I've come across are no NIDS products
>and the model selection is different (ETA211, AVN, NGM).  IN NWX there are
>no State Forecast Discussions. I must need to update some files  ?  

For the GARP problems, you need to copy the Garp_defaults file from
wxbox over to winfo2.  The one in the distribution is different from
the one you are running on wxbox.

To do that, log into winfo2 as user gempak.  Then:

cd $GARPHOME/config                       (go to the Garp config directory)
cp Garp_defaults Garp_defaults.dist       (make a backup copy)
ftp wxbox                                 (ftp to wxbox, log in as gempak)
cd /home/gempak/NAWIPS-5.4/garp/config    (go to the Garp config directory)
get Garp_defaults                         (get the config file)
quit                                      (exit ftp)

Start up Garp from NTL and see if things work correctly now.

As for NWX, I ran it from winfo2 and I was able to get them up.
It takes a while for the station circles to appear because it
does it dynamically from which stations report.  You will get
a message:

PRODUCT STATION " KEAT " not found in table.

but after a while you should get some station circles.  I was
able to get the CO State Discussion for today:

999   
FXUS75 KBOU 130949  
SFDDEN  
      
COLORADO STATE FORECAST DISCUSSION    
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER COLORADO  
300 AM MST WED JAN 13 1999  
  
SHORT TERM DISCUSSION FOR NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO:    
I WILL BE SPEEDING THINGS UP A BIT WITH THIS SHORTWAVE AS LATEST   
MODELS SHOW CLEARING WORKING INTO NRN CO BY 18Z.  THIS SYSTEM IS   
WEAKER IN ALL RESPECTS THAN YESTERDAYS...FAIRLY HIGH CEILING WITH A   
LITTLE VIRGA IS ALL I CAN FIND UPSTREAM.  GIVEN THIS AND THE FASTER   
SPEED...I WILL DROP THE MENTION OF FLURRIES ON THE PLAINS EXCEPT   
AROUND LIMON AND WARM TEMPS A BIT IN SOME OF THE ZONES.  JUST ENOUGH   
WIND AND MOISTURE AT MOUNTAINTOP TO SQUEEZE OUT LIGHT SNOW FOR 6-9   
HOURS...BUT THAT SHOULD BE ENDING THIS AFTERNOON.     GIMMESTAD  
  
LONG TERM DISCUSSION FOR COLORADO: TIMING THE PASSAGE OF WK SHRTWVS   
MOVG ALG STG NWLY FLOW ALOFT REMAINS TO BE BIGGEST CHALLENGE.  NXT   
SHRTWV PASSING OVR WY/NRN UT ATTM MARKED BY CLOUD BAND ON IR SATL LOOP   
AND A NARROW LN OF ECHOS ON NOWRAD FCST TO PASS THRU STATE BY END OF   
1ST PD.  FORWARD SPD AS MUCH AS 6 HRS FASTER THAN WAS PROGGD BY PREV  
MDL RUNS.  THEREFORE CLOUD CVR AND SNOWFALL FOR NRN AND CNTRL MTNS IN   
CURRENT FCST WILL NEED TO BE ADJUSTED DOWNWARD IN 2ND PD.  ETA..NGM   
AND AVN ALL SHOW TROF AXIS ALG ERN CO BORDER BY 00Z.  EVEN THAT APRS   
A FEW HRS TOO SLOW.  SEE SVRL HRS OF CAA THIS EVE WITH THERMAL TROF AXIS   
PASSAGING THRU STATE BEFORE 12Z/THU.  COMBINATION OF CAA AND NWLY WNDS   
INGREDIENTS FOR AT LEAST SCTD SNW SHWRS IN NRN MTNS...BUT WITH LACK   
OF MSTR SHOULD SEE ONLY A FEW SNOW SHWRS MAINLY THIS EVE AND LIMITED   
TO HIEST OROGRAPHICALLY FAVORED SLOPES IN NRN MTN ZNS 4..33 AND 34.   
OTWS...WARMING ASSOCIATED WITH RIDGING UNDERWAY BY THU MRNG WITH SFC   
HIGH SITTING OVR WRN VLYS.  WARMING WILL BE VRY SLOW W OF MTNS WHERE   
COLD AIR WILL REMAIN TRAPPPED IN VLYS BUT SHOULD SEE A 5 TO 10 DEG F   
UP IN MAX TEMPS E OF MTNS.    
  
IN THE EXTENDED PD...TEMPS EVEN WARMER E OF MTNS ON FRI WITH W-NWLY   
DOWNSLOPE FLOW ASSOCIATED WITH LEE TROFG.  A BIT MORE MIXING WILL ALSO   
HELP TO WARM DAYTIME TEMPS IN THE WRN VLYS.  HWVR WARMUP MAY BE   
TEMPERED A BIT BY INCREASE IN MIDLVL CLOUD CVR ACCORDING TO AVN.    
MRF AND THE NAVY'S NOGAPS SHOW LTL CHG THRU THE WEEKEND AS UPR LVL   
FLOW GRDLY BECMS MORE ZONAL.  ONLY FLY IN OINMENT...NOGAPS SHOWS   
ARCTIC AIR OVR NRN GREAT PLNS BACKING UP AGAINST NERN CORNER OF   
STATE SUN.  REALLY TOO ERLY TO GET EXCITED ABOUT IT.   BAKER    
  
.DEN...NONE.  
  
>Talk to you soon.

See you tomorrow.

Don