User's Guide
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1.Overview
- 2. Setting Up Your System
- 2.1Setting Up Map Layers
- 2.2Setting Up Display Levels (for clients without .psf mapping data)
- 2.3Adding Water-Fill Points (for clients without .psf mapping data)
- 2.4Fixing Floods with Anti-Fill Points (for clients without .psf mapping data)
- 2.5Editing the Places Database
- 2.6Adjusting the Color Palette
- 2.7Using the Baron Chart
- 2.8Editing Colors for 256-Color Palettes
- 2.9Customizing Font Displays
- 2.10Manipulating the Automatic Legend
- 2.11Using Overlays
- 2.12Setting Up Icons
- 2.13Points to Remember
- 3.Adjusting Views
- 3.1Using the View Main Panel
- 3.2Setting Map Parameters
- 3.3Editing Topographical Data
- 3.4Saving and Organizing Views
- 3.5Using the View Options
- 3.5.1Adding Text to a View
- 3.5.2Zooming In and Out From a View
- 3.5.3Pointing to Features on a View
- 3.5.4Panning on a View
- 3.5.5Labeling Streets with Street Spotter
- 3.5.6Controlling Display of Radar Data
- 3.5.7Utilizing TeleTrac
- 3.5.8Displaying Lightning Strikes on a View
- 3.5.9Displaying Storm Spotter( Van data
- 3.5.10Toggling High-Definition Data Processing
- 3.5.11Displaying NEXRAD forecast data
- 3.5.12Displaying Neighborhood Weather Net( Sensor Data
- 3.5.13Zooming to a Specific City
- 3.5.14Adding Fronts and Pressure Markers
- 3.5.15Creating Temporary Pixel Query Points
- 3.5.16Creating Fixed Pixel Query Points
- 3.5.17Displaying Precipitation Type Maps
- 3.5.18Saving the Current View as a Bitmap
- 3.5.19Printing the Current View
- 3.5.20Highlighting Your Spotter Network On-Air
- 3.5.21Displaying National Weather Service Warnings
- 3.5.22Displaying Wind Speed and Direction
- 3.6Points to Remember
- 4.Managing Storm Tracks
- 5.Using SEQUENCER
- 6.Controlling Your Radar
- Glossary
FasTrac Millennium User’s Guide – May 2003
Managing Storm Tracks
5. Select the AutoTrac button. The status panel will indicate, “Replaying archived data for
AutoTrac.” After a short pause, it will read, “Finished replay. Left-click on storm’s
position.”
6. Carefully click the position of the storm during this archived sweep. Click only once.
7. After the system finishes the NEXRAD replay, carefully click on the new position for an
instant auto-track.
4.6 Identifying Storms with StormScan
StormScan displays cell-by-cell characteristics of a storm system, letting you easily view and
summarize the characteristics of a storm, including the presence of hail, hail size, storm top
height, storm speed, and the direction in which the storm is traveling. You may also access
tornado signatures, max dBZ, and circulation through StormScan. You can easily review current
and past storm parameters by comparing two consecutive NEXRAD sweeps. In short, StormScan
displays the complete attributes of the storm system, as shown in the following example:
The following tables describe the default color codes used to describe weather characteristics.
The five SCITs in the first table are derived from National Weather Service data:
Description
Color Code and RGB Value
Storms with Tornado Vortex Signature (TVS)
LIGHT RED
TVSAttributeColor=255,0,0
Storms with mesocyclonic activity
DARK RED
MesoAttributeColor=128,0,0
Storms with a chance of severe hail
DARK BLUE
SevHailAttributeColor=0,0,128
Storms with a chance of hail
LIGHT BLUE
HailAttributeColor=0,0,255
Normal thunderstorms
GREEN
StormAttributeColor=0,128,0
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