Scattered severe thunderstorms are forecast across central and eastern North Dakota, as well as far northwest Minnesota Saturday (Slight Risk level 2 of 5). Damaging wind gusts are the primary threat. Elevated to critical fire weather conditions will persist through the weekend across the Western U.S. Isolated dry thunderstorms could lead to new fire starts over portions of the northern Rockies. Read More >
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All available RPCCDS product data is delivered in bzip2 compressed 'tar' archive files named as wsr88dHHMM#.tbz2 containing the actual product data files with relative path structure. Archive contents are uniquely identified using directory path components formatted as "DC.radar/DS.ptype/SI.cccc/sn.####" (see: RPCCDS Product Files )
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The RPCCDS product data is delivered in 10 second intervals upon receipt at the NWSTG server. RPCCDS subscribers should choose a computing platform with the operating characteristics consistent with their particular data processing requirements. There are no product retransmissions. Therefore, RPCCDS product data files missed will need to be individually pulled from the NWS ftp server farm ( ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/ ) to obtain any missing product data. The description of the product identifiers and the radar site location list are contained in the RPCCDS Product Files for FTP. It is the responsibility of the RPCCDS subscriber to detect when and if this should be necessary.
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