watch/warning updates

[Russ Dengel]

Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
Gilbert,

            Thanks. A frame like this is created each time a new tornado 
warning is issued by the NWS. This particular display is formated for 
the PDA Animated Weather (PAW) website (  
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/paw ). The display software is written as 
standard McIDAS application, allowing users to overlay the information 
on any size navigated image frame.  Here is a list of the applications 
involved:

            TORDEC -> TORnado DECoder runs as a McIDAS keyin. It "reads" 
the lastest tornado warning text and decodes the information (location, 
speed, direction, duration,  warning counties, polygons, and cities in 
the path) into a McIDAS Meteorological Dataset (MD) file. I place this 
in a cronjob and run it every 2 minutes.

            TORDISP -> reads the MD file using standard ADDE transaction 
and plots the warnings on any navigated McIDAS image frame.

            TORWARN -> monitors the Tornado MD file for new entries. It 
creates the PAW display and pushes it to our web server. Depending on 
the list of warning counties, the application produces EMAIL and/or SMS 
messages for list of individuals interested in getting notification of 
the warning.

             The entire process is automated. The only time it requires 
attention is when it receives a bogus warning causing the decoder to 
stop, or insertion of a new individual into the TORWARN notification 
queue.  These programs are NOT part of the standard McIDAS core 
applications set. They are included in the development package 
distributed with  a McIDAS release.

Russ



> On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Russ Dengel wrote:
>
>>     WWDISP displays the watch/warnings by counties. I think Robert is 
>> after the polygons that are now included at the end of the notices as 
>> a list of LAT/LON.  As far as I know, the only McIDAS app that 
>> produces a polygon plot is the Tornado warning plotter in the McIDAS 
>> development set.  Here is an example
>>
>>    http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/paw/tornado/torwarn_101606_070.gif
>>
>>    This is currently active tornado warning The BLACK/YELLOW region 
>> is the polygon included at the end of the warning text.
>>
>> Russ Dengel
>
>
> Ooh, that looks great! How can I get my hands on that?
>
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