20030623: Another question....this one about displaying warnings

Kevin,

There are 2 different ways to display warnings.

1) The dcwarn decoder that you are using store the information in the
   decoded files you mention below (this is an NCEP decoder).

   You can display these notifications in GPMAP or NMAP2 as the
   red, blue, green markers. The datatype.tbl entry you need to
   check on is "WARN", which as I provide the distribution is
   set to $GEMDATA/storm/warn. If your GEMDATA variable is set to
   /usr1/nawips/metdat, then you are good to go. Otherwise, make sure
   you are setting GEMDATA correctly.

   In NMAP2, you will see this data when you use the data type "MISC"
   and select "WARN".

   In GPMAP. see the help information on configuring "WARN" as one of the
   parameters.

2) I provide a program called "GPWARN". This program will use the 
   raw/undecoded bulletins (from the NWX tree) to plot zone and county
   outlines. 

   See the online help for gpwarn for examples on plot settings.
   The WWFIL templates that I defined in for use in GPWARN are:
   WWFIL    = nonpcpwarn;winterwarn;floodwarn;tstormwarn;tornadowarn

   each of these is defined in datatype.tbl, eg:
! Text files for warnings
TORNADOWARN  $TEXT_WARN/torn_warn      YYYYMMDDHH.torn           ....etc.
TSTORMWARN   $TEXT_WARN/tstrm_warn     YYYYMMDDHH.tstrm          ....etc.
FLOODWARN    $TEXT_DATA/fflood/warn    YYYYMMDDHH.warn           ....etc.
WINTERWARN   $TEXT_WARN/winter         YYYYMMDDHH.winter         ....etc.
NONPCPWARN   $TEXT_WARN/noprcp         YYYYMMDDHH.noprcp         ....etc.

The environmental variables TEXT_WARN and TEXT_DATA are set in the Gemenviron 
file
(TEXT_DATA is the root of the NWX data tree, and TEXT_WARN is 
$TEXT_DATA/watch_warn).

If you use the NWX file action I provide, and then $TEXT_DATA would most
likely point to /usr1/nawips/metdat/nwx on your system.



Steve Chiswell






>From: "Kevin Polston" <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200306232201.h5NM0xLd028128

>Hi Tom,
>
>You will be happy to know I resolved my problem with the data not being stored
>properly.  I don't know exactly what happened but I just did the "brute force"
>method of fixing it. That is, I removed the entire nawips 5.6j and re-installe
> d
>it.  So I got everyhting working again.  :-)
>
>I am having a problem still with just a couple of thinsg and perhaps you can h
> elp.
>I am wanting to use 5.6j and display the warnings for counties as either outli
> nes
>or as shaded in counties.  However.....at this time I am not getting any warni
> ngs
>displayed and I am unsure of why this is.  Watches display just fine and I hav
> e
>the data directories set up in a very similar way.
> For instance the watches are saved in the directory
>/usr1/nawips/metdat/storm/watches    while the warnings are saved in
>/usr1/nawips/metdat/storm/warn
>
>I went through each directory and made sure the owner and user names were set 
> up
>right.......I double checked the permissions and the data is coming in.  It
>appears the decoder is working too since I have the data in the directory and 
> when
>I do a "cat" on it I see decoded warnings there.  So I am unsure of what to do
>  to
>get this to display.  Perhaps something is not set up quite right in my
>datatype.tbl.....since I haven't checked it here recently after I re-installed
>everything......but I "think" it's ok.  So what would you suggest I do?  I use
> d to
>have the warnings displaying before when it was either jsut the blue, red or g
> reen
>dots that would show up. But I really would like to be able to outline the
>counties.  Hopefully this isn't too hard of a problem to solve.  I also did a
>"touch command" to the directory from LDM to make sure it was able to write th
> ere
>and it is.   What do you think?
>
>Thanks.
>
>KP
>