Is GEMPAK and/or McIDAS capable of drawing the NWS polygons of updates = watch/warning areas? I know GEMPAK has a decoder, but I never could get = it to draw the polygon defined by that lat/lon points in the update = using the standard GEMPAK tools. Thanks, Robert Mullenax CSBF/NMSU/PSL >From address@hidden Mon Oct 16 10:15:30 2006 >Hi Robert, >I requested this feature on McIDAS last summer...nothing on it yet. As for >GEMPAK, I don't know. >******************************************************************************* >Gilbert Sebenste ******** >(My opinions only!) ****** >Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University **** >E-mail: address@hidden *** >web: http://weather.admin.niu.edu ** ******************************************************************************* >From address@hidden Mon Oct 16 11:30:10 2006 > 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 Fingerhut, William A @ LSC wrote: > The Mcidas command WWDISP should do this. > > The IDV will do some also. > > Bill > > > < Bill Fingerhut, Professor PHONE: 802-626-6257 > > < Meteorology Dept FAX: 802-626-9770 > > < Lyndon State College > > < Lyndonville, Vt 05851 > > < > > < EMAIL: address@hidden > > < address@hidden > > < WWW: http://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu/ > > < > > < disclaimer: I know nothing - I only work here. > >From address@hidden Mon Oct 16 13:47:45 2006 > 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
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