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
Using SEQUENCER
FasTrac Millennium User’s Guide – May 2003
5.3.2 Creating NEXRAD Time-Lapses
1. Configure your ingestor program (such as NetRad or WSIrad) to delete NEXRAD files that
are older than four hours. (This will retain the setting and only needs to be set once.) The
procedure is different for different programs.
2. Open SEQUENCER, and highlight the sequence's event after which you want to insert the
time lapse. (If no events exist in this sequence, the new time lapse will become the first
event.)
3. Click Ins Evt to open the selection menu.
4. Double-click on the TIME LAPSE listing to open the Event List, which lists the available
time lapses. If no lapses are in the system, the list of available lapses will be blank.
5. Click Create New to open the Radar Type menu.
6. Select the radar type that describes your needs:
Baron/Unisys/WSI NexRad or WxCentral NexRad.
7. Select the Name text box, and type in a unique name (the system
will warn you if you pick an existing name). Select the NEXRAD
site from the Site pull-down list. The system will only let you
choose sites from which your system has products. The product
pull-down list, however, lists all possible products, not just the
ones available.
8. Specify the number of iterations and the pause between frames, in
milliseconds. (See step 8 in section 5.3.1 for explanations of the
terms.)
9. Click Lapse up to 24 hours to list all the available NEXRAD
files for the specified site and product from the last 24 hours, or
click Lapse up to 30 days to list all files from the past 30 days.
10. Select individual products to use in the time lapse by clicking on the first file you want, and
then holding down the CTRL key while you select subsequent files, or select a range by
clicking on the first file you want and then holding down the SHIFT key while you select the
last product.
11. When you have highlighted all the products you want in the lapse, click Create Lapse. If you
have done everything correctly, the system will use the selected products to create a time
lapse. You can play back and edit this time-lapse event like any other time-lapse event.
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