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David, The value for WEIGHT is probably so small that almost no stations are being included. Try a value between 20 and 50 (as in SEARCH). Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support >From: David Ovens <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200012112212.eBBMCIo07731 >Hello, > >I've tried running sfcntr with the following and all I get are the >TMPF numbers and a couple of very short line segments sprinkled around >the plot: > > AREA = 45.25;-125;50;-119 > GAREA = 45.25;-125;50;-119 > SATFIL = > RADFIL = > SFPARM = tmpf > DATTIM = 21 > SFFILE = $GEMDATA/surface/latest/sao.gem > COLORS = 32;7;0;32 > MAP = 8 > LATLON = 0 > TITLE = 0 > CLEAR = y > PANEL = 0 > DEVICE = xw > PROJ = mer > FILTER = 0 > TEXT = small/3//hw > LUTFIL = > STNPLT = > CLRBAR = 1/V/LL/.9;.1/.75;.05 > CNTRPRM = tmpf > GAMMA = 0.3 > WEIGHT = 1 > LINE = 32/1/1/0 > CONTUR = 0 > NPASS = 2 > CINT = 3 > >Am I doing something wrong or does sfcntr not work? It is practically >not described in the NAWIPS 5.6 User's Guide and the "help" function >since it basically just describes sfmap. > >Do you have any example scripts that work that I could test? > >Thanks for any help. > > >David >-- > >David Ovens e-mail: address@hidden >(206) 685-8108 plan: Real-time MM5 forecasting for Pacific Northwest >Research Meteorologist >Dept of Atmospheric Sciences, Box 351640 >University of Washington >Seattle, WA 98195 >