18 July 2004

0020	Time loop shows movement of cells to the WSE w/ continued regeneration on 
	the east (upwind) side.  Particle id indicates small hail in cell complex 
	to NE.  Anvil areas becoming quite excessive on several cells (may extend 
	downwind toward west).

0020	Shift center of micro 135 to 35 deg. - loosing decay conv. to se but want 
	to track continued development to NW.

0150	Much of echo activity waning to E-N however one cell appears to have put 
	out outflow boundary and new cell development occurring ~ 30 km NE of S-
	Pol - will stay with Micro135 near for now.

0230	Back to ClimoNear for now.

0305	Dave Ahihevych here now.  Potential new good storms 60 to 80 km ENE.  
	Considered moving to ClimoFar for better height resolution.  But these 
	cells may quickly shoot above the 14 deg elevation as a combination of 
	growth and westward advection.

0412	IR cloud top temps overlaid behind radar echo is nice tool on CIDD.

0439	Cells to east died.  About an hour lifecycle.

0535	Will switch to ClimoFar.  No good reflectivity cores above 14 deg 
	elevation.  

0543 	ClimoFar.

0642	Switching to ClimoShallow at 0700.

0700	ClimoShallow

0922	Some taller cells 50 km, 120 deg.  Maybe move to climo far.

0932	IQ workstation is frozen again.

0942	Manually rebooted it.  Restarted CIDD.

0957	Over past couple hours a stream of shallow cells moves westward off the 
	coastal plain and over the water.  This is a band about 100 km wide 
	centered about 100 km south of S-Pol.

1046	Much wider band now - covers southern 1/2 of scope.

1145	will allow Ka band work at 12 UTC.  Weather is pretty boring.  IR 
	satellite shows deeper convection just beyond the southern boundary of the 
	radar domain moving out to sea.

1800	Gauge empty, RC on site.  SPOL currently down for Ka band work.  Given 
	current conditions (suppressed), told done that he could continue Ka band 
	work until 1930.

1945	SPol up in ClimoShallow, nothing of interest on either radar scope or vis 
	satellite - this is the most suppressed I have seen it here.

2030	Moved to ClimoFar to top new cell growth ~100 km NE-SE.  Several cells to 
	14+ km with cores of 55+ dbz.  Captured some RHIs - kdp showing ~ 2.5 km 
	in one cell with nice Zdr column to near 7 km. Satellite loop showing 
	development and propagation of cells over SMO very nicely - question is 
	will it hold together or fall apart before arriving over coastal plain.

2045	NOAA ETL time series suggests land breeze - sea breeze cross over at ~ 15 
	Z (crossing from F->S).  Then winds become SW at ~18 Z.  SPOL time series 
	shows fine line moving on shore past radar ~ 20 UTC and continuing inland.

2130	Cells continuing westward progression, starting micro 90 to capture 
	microphysics (need to do near, as we're not quite topping at 14 degrees).  
	Centering swath on 90 deg, - seems that NE-SE sector is the only show in 
	town at the moment...

2145	Switching to 135 MicroNear sector to better cover activity in SE quadrant.  
	Several cells now w/tops near 17 km - However, like yesterday cores tend 
	to be quite narrow (< 10 km).  Time loop now suggests that feature that 
	moved on shore (~20 UTC) is colliding w/outflow to produce new cell growth 
	~ 40 km NE of radar.

2210	Echoes are dissipating in our vicinity but new growth ~ 100 km distant (NE 
	sector).  Will continue with micro sectors for time being to see what 
	happens.

2230	Switch to ClimoNear.