Re: 20030106: HAXA00 grid?

• To: Steve Chiswell; Robert Mullenax
• Subject: Re: 20030106: HAXA00 grid?
• From: Linda Miller [mailto:lmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
• Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 12:48:52 -0600

Thanks, Linda.


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Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 12:34 PM
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All,

I'll call the NWS to see what is happening.  I'll post the status as soon as
I 
find out.

Linda

--On Monday, January 06, 2003 10:51 AM -0700 Steve Chiswell 
<chiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Robert,
>
> The bulletin is still HAXA00 KWBC (though accoring to an admin message
> a while back, this will become HAXA00 KWN. in the future...so I
> use the pattern HAXA00 K... to ensure receiving the bulletin
> when the change occurs).
>
> I looked at one of the raw bulletins we are receiving
> (recall you can use notifyme to verify that you are receiving the
> bulletin, and pqcat to dump out the raw bulletin from the queue
> if you are not otherwise filing it), and the grib portion of the
> bulletin does not end with "7777". Instead, it only has "777".
> Any grib decoder should verify that "7777" is found at the correct
> position from the PDS block, and reject it otherwise. I verified that
> DCGRIB2 and gribdump from the Unidata decoders package both reject the
> bulletin, and pqing from the LDM package will also log the bulletin as
> not conforming.
>
> So, it appears that there is a problem at the NWS where the GRIB is
> created.
>
> Steve Chiswell
> Unidata User Support
>
> On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Robert Mullenax wrote:
>
>>
>> Has the header for the gridded radar summary product changed?  The one
that
>> is HAXA00 KWBC?
>> Either we are not getting it now or the GEMPAK decoder can't handle it
now.
>> It was working
>> 2 months ago.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Robert Mullenax
>>
>> Robert Mullenax
>> Weather Systems Administrator
>> Universal Weather and Aviation
>>
>



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