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Post by tornado on Mar 24, 2017 12:44:33 GMT -5
Dodge City, Kansas, radar failed last night, during severe weather:
Apparently the radar had a transmitter error.
The NWS warned us that weather radar will begin to degrade:
Once the radar returned to service, strong cells could be seen near Garden City:  |
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Post by tornado on Mar 30, 2017 11:45:45 GMT -5
Melbourne, Florida:
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Post by tornado on Apr 4, 2017 20:46:06 GMT -5
2 radars in the southeast, out until at least Thursday:  |
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Post by tornado on Apr 5, 2017 10:18:28 GMT -5
Ft. Rucker, Alabama, Wed 5 Apr 2017: Put another way, there are currently 3 radar outages in the southeast, 2 of which are located within a tornado watch box: 
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Post by tornado on Apr 25, 2017 23:57:26 GMT -5
Atlanta, Georgia, 25 Apr 2017:  |
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Post by skobie on Apr 26, 2017 7:45:28 GMT -5
The radar at KBUF constantly goes out, usually only when there is "weather" actually occurring. It's great to have the radar go blank in the middle of a thunderstorm or lake-effect snow storm!
skobie
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Post by tornado on May 3, 2017 13:52:49 GMT -5
Springfield, Missouri:This is from an area that just had a lot of rain. 
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Post by tornado on May 29, 2017 14:59:46 GMT -5
Houston, Texas:
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Post by hlsto2 on Jun 15, 2017 21:46:42 GMT -5
abilene radar (dyx) down for over 1 1/2 hours... ltg is current. 79 dbz just east of bgs when radar went down...an indication of giant hail. so far hail to 2" in diameter reported near bgs. DYS reported gust to 54 knots at 2110CDT...abi 46 knots at 2109CDT. radar down at 1954CDT...still down at 2220CDT  |
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Post by tornado on Jan 25, 2018 12:57:46 GMT -5
Montgomery, Alabama:
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Post by hlsto2 on Jan 25, 2018 14:26:21 GMT -5
this is what happens when there is TOO MUCH automation...too many things can go wrong. I remember my days in the NWS with the WSR-57 and 74C...outages were rare. also had human input. could stop the sweep on a cell of interest to examine it's structure. now doppler and aldars hum along on their own...with little human input. waiting for the day they tell us NOT to augment ASOS. when we first got ASOS in MCN in the early 90s...we were told NOT to augment or make changes...except to start/stop TS. you see how long THAT lasted.
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Post by skobie on Jan 25, 2018 15:36:10 GMT -5
Yes, I started my observer training in Syracuse, NY in the mid-90s and we had to about write a book every time we augmented or backed up ASOS. Keeping in mind that ASOS back then was allowed to be in error by 1 reportable criteria, ie, ASOS says sky is BKN and observer says it's SCT or OVC - then we left it alone, but if ASOS says sky is BKN and observer says it's FEW - then we backed it up and wrote it up. Same thing with VIS and everything else. What a pain in the ass that was in retrospect.
skobie
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Post by hlsto2 on Jan 26, 2018 1:34:30 GMT -5
you ever have to deal with MAPSO...the go between manual obs and ASOS? now there was a pain!
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Post by TCU 2U2 on Jan 26, 2018 6:42:35 GMT -5
you ever have to deal with MAPSO...the go between manual obs and ASOS? now there was a pain! I absolutely loved MAPSO. Things like reminding the observer needed data (3 / 6 / 24 hour groups), Synoptic observations, RVR input, etc. And it was great to see the mandatory cloud code groups continued under MAPSO. I thought the required knowledge of "27 states of sky" would be lost once I left the military - only until ASOS arrived in mid 90's did we stop with the 8/clcmch groups ...  |
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Post by skobie on Jan 26, 2018 11:20:12 GMT -5
You mean the Micro-computer Aided Paperless Surface Observation program. Had it's advantages and disadvantages, but I really didn't work with it long enough to know everything about it. Also briefly worked with COMEDS as a civilian meteorologist at an Air Force Base in the late 90s before they went over to some other cooky online system that never worked right (and eventually ASOS as well).
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