Scattered severe thunderstorms are possible today across central and eastern Minnesota, Iowa, and western Wisconsin. A few tornadoes, isolated very large hail, and damaging winds may occur. An upper level low will help trigger scattered thunderstorms over portions of central and southern California today along with a few inches of snow in the central Sierra Nevadas. 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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