JD: 00-178 DoW: SUN/MON UTC Date: 26JUNE2000

SUMMARY: No Operations – No Close Storms and Cloud Cover

TLE PREDICTION: 0.10 [0.5 x 0.20]

RESULTS: Storms Too Far from LMA; Cloud Cover Blocked View

LESSONS: n/a

PERSONNEL: Lyons, Nelson, Nordem, Gerken

STEPS STATUS: STEPS operates.

YRFS OPERATION LOGS: On standby, no operations conducted.

STEPS OPERATIONS: STEPS goes for early ops. The cold front passed to the eastern and southern edges of the STEPS domain by mid-afternoon, which was 2-3 hours quicker than forecast. Convection triggered along an arc from Tribune to Hoxie, Ks, and Mobile units were sent to the Tribune area early afternoon for possible operations, but convection moved out of the research region and teams

returned back to Goodland. Operations were called down at 5:30 pm.

KEY RESULTS : n/a

Total TLEs from Yucca Ridge This Campaign: 533

FMA

Red Xybion (A)-Patrol: 0 tapes

Sony TRV900 3CCD: 0

GEN III unit; available

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

Pulnix CCD: shoot various TL scenes

Photodiode: Tested with several tubes and gains

Winckler PMT: available

GPS: OK

WWV Source: OK

VLF Inspire: available4

ELF N-S: not available

ELF E-W: not available

NLDN Live: OK

NLDN Paper: 0 maps

NLDN Archive: 0 saves

MRC Data Acquisition: available

FMA Data Acquisition: not available

Thunder Mic: available

LANL Tracker: OK

Red Xybion (B)-Zoom; 0 tapes (on tracker)

Red Xybion (C)-Tele: 0 tapes-on tracker

Blue Xybion(D)-zoom: 0 tapes - 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 avail

LLTV avail

ELF/VLF avail

UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: not present

MIT ELF: problems with vertical antenna?

FUELLEKRUG ELF: operational

ISRAELI ELF: nominal