JD: 00-166 DoW: TUE/WED UTC Date: 14JUNE2000

SUMMARY: Distant Squall Line Obscured by Clouds

TLE PREDICTION: 0.35 [0.7 x 0.50]

RESULTS: heard them, could not see them

LESSONS: n/a

PERSONNEL: Lyons, Nelson, Fossum, Nordem, Maria,

STEPS STATUS: STEPS down

YRFS OPERATION LOGS: FOREST FIRE in Ft. Collins-day 2. Much lightning on squall line from KS to MN,. But low clouds obscrued view of horizon until 06Z. By then storm was just too far away to do anything meaninggul.

Three quarter moon blocked by clouds.

STEPS OPERATIONS: STEPS down

KEY RESULTS : Total TLEs from Yucca Ridge This Campaign: 241

FMA

Red Xybion (A)-Patrol: 0 tapes

Sony TRV900 3CCD: shot TL scenes of fire during day;

GEN III unit; 0

JVC KY-19: shoot daytime TL/STEPS Cam (to ESE);

Pulnix CCD: shoot various TL scenes

Photodiode: lens mated to original unit, needs to be tested

Winckler PMT: OK

GPS: OK

WWV Source: OK

VLF Inspire: sampled

ELF N-S: not available

ELF E-W: not available

NLDN Live: OK

NLDN Paper: 1 maps

NLDN Archive: 2 saves

MRC Data Acquisition: OK

FMA Data Acquisition: not available

Thunder Mic: available

LANL Tracker: OK

Red Xybion (B)-Zoom; 0 tapes (in patrol mode)

Red Xybion (C)-Tele: 0 tapes

Blue Xybion(D)-zoom: problems with focus

Mountain Cam: nominal

STEPS Cam: nominal

Shure Mic: OK

NEXRAD Archive: WeatherTap problems

GOES Archive: OK

RUC2 Archive: OK

STANFORD/STAR LAB:

Telescope OK

LLTV OK

ELF/VLF OK

UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: not present

MIT ELF: problems with vertical antenna?

FUELLEKRUG ELF: operational

ISRAELI ELF: nominal