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Programs
DCWOU
DCWOU decodes watch outline update reports from a real-time data feed,
or from a file fed to the program through standard input,
and writes the data to an ASCII file. 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:
DCWOU [options] output_file
If running the program interactively with standard input, the -c
option must be used. The input file must also be specified.
For example:
DCWOU -c YYMMDD/HHNN [other_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.
YYYY or YY Year with or without the century
MM Month number
DD Day
HH Hour
NN Minute
The format of the output ASCII file is as follows:
|Watch|Issue|Start|Stop|Watch |Bulletin |Active|Time|Corr/test|Cancel
|type |time |time |time|number|originator|WFOs |zone|flag | flag
County/marine zone table entries, one per line, formatted as shown in the
example below (county/marine zone information lines should appear just as
they do in $GEMTBL/stns/mzcntys.tbl)
. . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . .
where:
Watch type is TSM thunderstorm watch
TOR tornado watch
Issue time is YYMMDD/HHMM - GEMPAK date/time format - Issue time
of the WOU bulletin
Start time is YYMMDD/HHMM - GEMPAK date/time format - Start time
of the WOU bulletin
Stop time is YYMMDD/HHMM - GEMPAK date/time format - End time of
the WOU bulletin
Bulletin originator is KALY, KBGM, etc. from 2nd field of 1st line of bulletin
Watch number is the decoded watch number
Active WFOs are the WFOs that the watch affects
Time zone is the time zone where the watch has been issued
Corr/test flag is 0 Not a correction; not a test
1 A correction; not a test
2 Not a correction; a test
3 A correction; a test
Cancel flag is 0 Not a cancellation
1 A cancellation
Example
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|TOR|021008/1121|021008/1130|021008/1700|102|KWNS|BMX;OHX;MEG;PAH;LMK;APX;OKX|CST|0|0
ALC077 1077 Lauderdale AL US 34.91 -87.65 0.00 0 BMX
INC129 18129 Posey IN US 38.02 -87.88 0.00 0 PAH
KYC031 21031 Butler KY US 37.21 -86.69 0.00 0 LMK
MSC093 28093 Marshall MS US 34.77 -89.50 0.00 0 MEG
TNC147 47147 Robertson TN US 36.53 -86.87 0.00 0 OHX
LHZ361 743610 LHZ361 LH US 45.65 -83.88 0.00 0 APX
ANZ335 673350 ANZ335 AN US 41.04 -73.35 0.00 0 OKX
ANZ338 673380 ANZ338 AN US 40.54 -74.08 0.00 0 OKX