JD: 00-173 DoW: TUE/WED UTC Date: 21JUNE2000

SUMMARY: Distant Storms; NO TLE’s observed

TLE PREDICTION: 0.20 [0.4 x 0.50]

RESULTS: distant lighting flashes only

LESSONS: n/a

PERSONNEL: Nelson, Fossum, Nordem, Gerken,

STEPS STATUS: STEPS down.

YRFS OPERATION LOGS: Some small storms in Panhandle. Not very good TLE candidates. Watched on patrol for two hours. Saw a few flashes but not much else.

STEPS OPERATIONS: STEPS down. NSSL mesonets go home.

KEY RESULTS : not much

Total TLEs from Yucca Ridge This Campaign: 330

EQUIPMENT:

FMA

Red Xybion (A)-Patrol: 1 tapes

Sony TRV900 3CCD: shot TL scenes of clouds;

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: ? maps

NLDN Archive: ? 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: Revised EDIS;

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