GEMPAK Manual | Programs


DCWOU

DCWOU decodes watch outline update reports from a real-time data feed, 
or from a file fed to the program through standard input, 
and writes the data to an ASCII file.  The program is controlled 
by inputs to the command line.

The inputs are program options and the output file name or template.
For example, for real-time data feeds:
    
	DCWOU [options] output_file

If running the program interactively with standard input, the -c
option must be used.  The input file must also be specified.
For example:

	DCWOU -c YYMMDD/HHNN [other_options] output_file < input_file
    
A template may be used to specify the output file name.  The file
name template uses the date and time of the bulletin or report
to replace the following characters.

	YYYY or YY	Year with or without the century
	MM		Month number
	DD		Day
	HH		Hour
	NN		Minute


The format of the output ASCII file is as follows:

|Watch|Issue|Start|Stop|Watch |Bulletin  |Active|Time|Corr/test|Cancel
|type |time |time |time|number|originator|WFOs  |zone|flag     | flag

County/marine zone table entries, one per line, formatted as shown in the 
example below (county/marine zone information lines should appear just as 
they do in $GEMTBL/stns/mzcntys.tbl)
.        .      .                                .  .   .     .         .  . .
.        .      .                                .  .   .     .         .  . .
.        .      .                                .  .   .     .         .  . .

where:

Watch type is           TSM     thunderstorm watch
                        TOR     tornado watch

Issue time is           YYMMDD/HHMM - GEMPAK date/time format - Issue time 
                                      of the WOU bulletin
Start time is           YYMMDD/HHMM - GEMPAK date/time format - Start time 
                                      of the WOU bulletin
Stop time is            YYMMDD/HHMM - GEMPAK date/time format - End time of
                                      the WOU bulletin
Bulletin originator is  KALY, KBGM, etc. from 2nd field of 1st line of bulletin

Watch number is 	the decoded watch number

Active WFOs are 	the WFOs that the watch affects
Time zone is 		the time zone where the watch has been issued 
Corr/test flag is       0       Not a correction; not a test
                        1       A correction; not a test
                        2       Not a correction; a test
                        3       A correction; a test

Cancel flag is          0       Not a cancellation
                        1       A cancellation

Example
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|TOR|021008/1121|021008/1130|021008/1700|102|KWNS|BMX;OHX;MEG;PAH;LMK;APX;OKX|CST|0|0
ALC077     1077 Lauderdale                       AL US     34.91    -87.65      0.00  0  BMX
INC129    18129 Posey                            IN US     38.02    -87.88      0.00  0  PAH
KYC031    21031 Butler                           KY US     37.21    -86.69      0.00  0  LMK 
MSC093    28093 Marshall                         MS US     34.77    -89.50      0.00  0  MEG
TNC147    47147 Robertson                        TN US     36.53    -86.87      0.00  0  OHX
LHZ361   743610 LHZ361                           LH US     45.65    -83.88      0.00  0  APX
ANZ335   673350 ANZ335                           AN US     41.04    -73.35      0.00  0  OKX
ANZ338   673380 ANZ338                           AN US     40.54    -74.08      0.00  0  OKX