Plotting Convective Outlooks
Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 7:23 am
I was trying to plot the Day 3 SPC Convective Outlook. I don't know if other people came up with this first. Go to Data ---> Retrieve Data. Scroll down to 'Convective Outlook Day 3 from SPC (USA). Highlight that. Then click on 'Edit Site'. In the window for 'Enter the URL for this site', you will see: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day3otlk.html /products/outlook/archive/. Remove that and put this in: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outloo ... 071100.txt
Then click ok. Once you retrieve the data and go to Data--->Convective Outlook----->Day 3, it will plot.
For Day 1 in the 'Enter the URL for this site', I used: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outloo ... 081200.txt
However, when I went to plot, nothing happened. Then I went to Data---->Troubleshoot Data and in the window labeled 'Click on a file to examine the imported contents', scroll down to Convective outlook, and double click on it. In the bottom screen you will see the Day 1 text version of the outlook. When I scrolled down, I noticed that for some unknown reason it gets cut off and the important part is left off. Why that occurs is something beyond me.
Then click ok. Once you retrieve the data and go to Data--->Convective Outlook----->Day 3, it will plot.
For Day 1 in the 'Enter the URL for this site', I used: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outloo ... 081200.txt
However, when I went to plot, nothing happened. Then I went to Data---->Troubleshoot Data and in the window labeled 'Click on a file to examine the imported contents', scroll down to Convective outlook, and double click on it. In the bottom screen you will see the Day 1 text version of the outlook. When I scrolled down, I noticed that for some unknown reason it gets cut off and the important part is left off. Why that occurs is something beyond me.