JD: 00-190 DoW: FRI/SAT UTC Date: 08JULY2000

SUMMARY: Upslope Clouds and Afternoon T-Storms

TLE PREDICTION: 0.36 (0.8 x 0.8)

RESULTS: n/a, some decent CG video during late afternoon

LESSONS:

PERSONNEL: Lyons, Nelson, Fossum, Gerken, Nordem, Gardner, Rina,

STEPS STATUS: STEPS up.

YRFS OPERATION LOGS: Upslope conditions. Thunderstorms formed on Denver cyclone convergence and moved towards us. Late afternoon t-storms with nice CGs. No clearing. Could not seen modest MCS up in Nebraska.

STEPS OPERATIONS: STEPS down.

KEY RESULTS : Nice video of close in CGs and a few spiders.

Total TLEs from Yucca Ridge This Campaign: 950+

FMA

Red Xybion (A)-Patrol: 0 tapes

Sony TRV900 3CCD: time lapse clouds

GEN III unit; 1.5 DV tapes of late afternoon close in CGs

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

Pulnix CCD: shoot various TL scenes

Photodiode: available

Winckler PMT: available

GPS: OK

WWV Source: OK

VLF Inspire: available

ELF N-S: not available

ELF E-W: not available

NLDN Live: OK

NLDN Paper: 2 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 available

LLTV available

ELF/VLF/PMT available

UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY:

Xybion GEN III (6 deg FOV) available

White or blue

CCD, Medium FOV OH imager available

Gravity waves/sprites

MIT ELF: operational

FUELLEKRUG ELF: operational

ISRAELI ELF: nominal