JD: 00-146          DoW:  WED/THU      UTC Date:  25MAY2000	

SUMMARY:            Some Thunderstorms Around; Clouds Cancel Viewing

YRFS OPS SUMMARY:   Upslope flow and moisture aloft, along with
fairly strong winds aloft, triggered small MCS along mountains which
drifted out into plains. Also very strong convection in SE KS, but way out
of range. Thick low clouds and fog made it difficult to do much with these
storms, including the ones which drifted out of Denver and to the SE of
YRFS between 0400-0700 Z. Did see a few spiders to the ESE around 0600 Z,
but too rain wrapped to do much with them. Stanford finished set up of
ELF/VLF system and telescope.

STEPS OPERATIONS:   Placed on standby for full operations starting at noon.
Not sure of LMA status.

Total TLEs from Yucca Ridge This Campaign: 	 0

KEY RESULTS :       n/a

TLE PREDICTION:     Slight Chance of Sprites; But Not able to see
RESULTS:            n/a
LESSONS:            n/a
PERSONNEL:          Lyons, Nelson, Fossum, Nordem, Trabuco, Gerken

STEPS  STATUS:      Set up for operations beginning at noon. Not sure of status of LMA


FMA EQUIPMENT:
Red Xybion (A)-Patrol: available
Sony TRV900 3CCD:      OK-no extra tape shot 
JVC KY-19:             shoot daytime TL/STEPS Cam (to ESE)
Pulnix CCD:            shoot various TL scenes		
Photodiode:            completed, not tested
Winckler PMT:          available
GPS:                   OK		
WWV Source:            OK
VLF Inspire:           OK		
ELF N-S:               not available				
ELF E-W:               not available		
NLDN Live:             OK	
NLDN Paper:            available		
NLDN Archive:          none saved
MRC Data Acq:          not available
FMA Data Acq:          not available		
Thunder Mic:           available
LANL Tracker:          available			
Red Xybion (B)-Zoom;   available
Red Xybion (C)-Tele:   available
Blue Xybion(D)-zoom:   available
Mountain Cam:          nominal
STEPS Cam:             nominal
Shure Mic:             OK
NEXRAD Archive:        OK-some gaps discovered
GOES Archive:          OK
RUC2 Archive:          OK			
		
STANFORD/STAR LAB:
Telescope              available
LLTV                   available
ELF/VLF                available

UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: not present		
				
MIT ELF:               nominal
FULELLEKRUG ELF:       says 80% operational
ISRAELI ELF:           nominal