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19990129: watch boxes...

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  • Subject: 19990129: watch boxes...
  • Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 12:54:47 -0700
Hi Maureen.

I do have the WW39 decoded and plotted....I did send you a fix last week
for decoding with dcwatch, and thiks bulletin seems to fit the pattern
that I made the fix for. Did you update your copy of
$GEMPAKHOME/src/bridge/dc/dcgbul.c
and recompile dcwatch?

I can post the complete routine in gbuddy if thats easier.

Here is the message I sent:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/glimpse/gempak/2661

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support

>From: Maureen Ballard <address@hidden>
>Organization: UK Ag Weather Center
>Keywords: 199901291908.MAA04978

>Steve,
>
>Once again I am having problems with plotting watch boxes. Actually the
>problem is that the message apparently isn't being decoded. Here is the
>log file from dcwatch.log:
>
>DCWATCH[6280]: 990129/1855: Starting up.
>DCWATCH[6280]: 990129/1855: read 394/16383 bytes strt 0 newstrt 394
>DCWATCH[6280]: 990129/1856: [DC -6]
>DCWATCH[6280]: 990129/1856: Normal Termination.
>DCWATCH[6280]: 990129/1856: Number of bulletins read and processed: 0
>DCWATCH[6280]: 990129/1856: Shutting Down.
>
>It started up today, so I would suspect that it started when the watch
>for TX was issued, but as you can see, nothing was read or processed.
>Our pqact.conf entry is as follows:
>
>DDPLUS  ^WWUS40 KMKC ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])
>        PIPE    /usr/local/ldm/decoders/dcwatch -v 3 -t 30
>        -d /d2-agwx/ldmdata/gempak/logs/dcwatch.log
>        -s /d1-apps/gempak/NAWIPS-5.4/gempak5.4/tables/stns/sfworld.tbl
>        -p /d1-apps/gempak/NAWIPS-5.4/gempak5.4/tables/pack/watch.pack
>        /d2-agwx/ldmdata/gempak/storm/watches/watches_YYYY_MM.gem
>
>I doubled checked and all the tabs are where the should be. We are
>grabbing the file and filing that in plain text as well and the message
>did indeed reach us as:
>
>999
>WWUS40 KMKC 291849
>SAW9
>MKC AWW 291849
>TXZ000-LAZ000-300100-
>WW 39 TORNADO  TX LA 291915Z - 300100Z
>AXIS..65 STATUTE MILES NORTH AND SOUTH OF LINE..
>25WNW AUS/AUSTIN TX/ - 40E ESF/ALEXANDRIA LA/
>..AVIATION COORDS.. 55NM N/S /21WNW AUS - 45ENE AEX/
>HAIL SURFACE AND ALOFT..2 INCHES.  WIND GUSTS..60 KNOTS.
>MAX TOPS TO 520.  MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 23035.
>
>Any ideas? Is it possible that there is an updated version of dcwatch?
>Thanks!
>
>Maureen
>
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>
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