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
Managing Storm Tracks
FasTrac Millennium User’s Guide – May 2003
The SCITs in the second table are derived from data provided by Baron Services algorithms:
Description
Color Code and RGB Value
Storms with heavy rain, lightning, and hail
PINK
SevStormAttributeColor=255,0,255
Storms with wind shear
ORANGE
ShearAttributeColor=255,153,0
4.6.1 Setting Up StormScan
1) Open the NEXRAD Main panel, select Reflectivity or Composite and select Auto Update
on the NEXRAD More panel (NEXRAD page 2).
2) Select Setup > Storm > StormScan or click on the Scan hot button to
open the Arrow Filter panel.
Show SCITs displays storm arrows.
Auto Scan uses the most recent product for storm arrows.
Use Alert Sound issues an audible beep when a new product updates
attribute data.
Use Alert Message displays a small message box in an off-air area
of the screen to notify you of attribute updates.
Show Storm IDs displays the ID given to each storm by the National
Weather Service on the SCIT arrow.
SWP in Markers shows Severe Weather Probability on the SCIT
arrow.
Visible SCITs lets you toggle the display of SCIT arrows with
certain types of storms. For example, if you unselect the Thunder
Storm option, no green storm arrows will appear.
Site to Scan indicates the site that is currently using its composite
reflectivity products to provide storm attribute data. You cannot
change this attribute from the Arrow Filter panel; the currently active NEXRAD site
controls this display.
Reset Defaults resets the selections to the default selections.
Marquee Options opens the StormScan Marquee Setup menu (see section 4.6.2).
Table Options opens the StormScan Table Setup menu (see section 4.6.3).
You can left click on the base of one these arrows to make a regular storm track that matches this
storm’s criteria. The header of the storm track ETA box indicates the storms’ contents. Other
than the header, this storm acts just like any other storm track.
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