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Programs
DCSTORM (Unidata)
DCSTORM decodes Severe Storm reports from the Storm Prediction
Center (SPC) from a real-time data feed, or from a file fed to the
program through standard input, and writes the data to a GEMPAK
ship format file. Bulletins decoded are hourly NWUS22 KWNS (formerly
WWUS60 KMKC) products.
The program is controlled by inputs to the command line.
The inputs are program options, and the output file name or template.
For example, for real-time data feeds:
dcstorm [options] output_file
If running the program interactively with standard input, the -c
option must be used. The input file must be also be specified.
For example:
dcstorm -c YYMMDD/HHNN [options] output_file < input_file
A template may be used to specify the output file name. The file
name template uses the date and time of the bulletin or report
to replace the following characters.
YY Year without the century
MM Month number
DD Day
HH Hour
NN Minute
User Controled Input Default
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Parameter file sels.pack
Station table none
Maxstns 9999