JD: 00-172 DoW: MON/TUE UTC Date: 20JUNE2000

SUMMARY: Large Sprites/Dancers from Classic MCS

TLE PREDICTION: 0.24 [0.6 x 0.40]

RESULTS: 90+ events; many large and bright

LESSONS: classic dnacers across radar bright band

PERSONNEL: Nelson, Fossum, Nordem, Gerken,

STEPS STATUS: STEPS down

YRFS OPERATION LOGS: Two tapes of each system (patrol, zoom, tele and GEN III). Four Sony GEN III tapes. Excellent trailing stratiform development with many dancers in +CG area. Many very large bright carrot types. Clouds did tend to partially block views. Many appeared to come from horizon later on. Storm was beyond 600 km during best phase. Few flashes at times on fringe of LMA. Stanford gets good telescope views.

STEPS OPERATIONS: STEPS down.

KEY RESULTS : Total TLEs from Yucca Ridge This Campaign: 330

FMA

Red Xybion (A)-Patrol: 2 tapes

Sony TRV900 3CCD: shot TL scenes of clouds; 4 hours of sprite tapes.

GEN III unit; 4 tapes –2 tapes routed to S-VHS w/ GPS time

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

Pulnix CCD: shoot various TL scenes

Photodiode: lens mated to original unit, Moon washes out

Winckler PMT: Moon washes out

GPS: OK

WWV Source: OK

VLF Inspire: sampled

ELF N-S: not available

ELF E-W: not available

NLDN Live: OK

NLDN Paper: 11 maps

NLDN Archive: 1 saves

MRC Data Acquisition: OK

FMA Data Acquisition: not available

Thunder Mic: available

LANL Tracker: OK

Red Xybion (B)-Zoom; 2 tapes

Red Xybion (C)-Tele: 2 tapes

Blue Xybion(D)-zoom: problems with focus

Mountain Cam: nominal

STEPS Cam: nominal

Shure Mic: OK

NEXRAD Archive: Revised EDIS; WeatherTap iffy

GOES Archive: OK

RUC2 Archive: OK

STANFORD/STAR LAB:

Telescope OK-got good data

LLTV OK

ELF/VLF OK

UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: not present

MIT ELF: problems with vertical antenna?

FUELLEKRUG ELF: operational

ISRAELI ELF: nominal