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Hello Allan, If you FILE the product from the HDS feed (rather than PIPE it to dcredbook), you can use GPMAP to plot it using the AWPSFL parameter: An example, the latest day 1 outlook, filename day1_052002.wmo, using GPMAP MAP = 1 MSCALE = 0 GAREA = US PROJ = STR/90;-100;0 SATFIL = RADFIL = IMCBAR = LATLON = PANEL = 0 TITLE = 1 TEXT = 1 CLEAR = YES DEVICE = gif|convol.gif|1024;768 LUTFIL = STNPLT = VGFILE = AFOSFL = AWPSFL = day1_052002.wmo LINE = 3//3 output gif is here: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/mjames/gempak/wx/convol.gif Notice that we are unable to plot low and slight risk boundaries differently with this method. This is a limitation of the file we are using. Michael James Unidata > Full Name: Allan Huffman > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: Private > Package Version: 6.8.0 > Operating System: Fedora 17 > Hardware: > Description of problem: Hello, > > Thanks for the earlier response on the CFS files by the way. > > One question I had. I have never been able to figure out how to plot > graphically the SPC convective outlooks using gempak. I would like to do > it in an automated fashion so using gpmap or whatever plotting program > would do this. Is there a quick tutorial online somewhere for this, or > any info you could pass along to point me in the right direction. Thanks! > > Allan Huffman > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: MRJ-780269 Department: Support GEMPAK Priority: Emergency Status: Open
