11 August 2004

0030	Switched to climofar to top SMO activity.

0100	Switched to climoshallow because only 5dBZ in the 7.9deg scan.

0300	Almost nothing happening. The activity over the SMO has all died out.

0315	This sequence started 3 minutes late at 0318 and went over to 0332. As a result we manually restarted the radar at 0338.

0400 	Gustavo on duty. Nothing out there.

1200 	Still nothing out there. Gustavo off duty.

1200 	Nesbitt here.  There are a few weak cells in the southeast and one cell on the LBF to the NW over the ocean.  Nice straight, well defined LBF this morning.

1205	On the large scale, there is a upper level high just to our north.  Some embedded moisture is rotating around the SE side of this into our area (causing the cells to the SE).  A MCS crossed the SMO down around 20 N and seems to be heading up the coast.  This might be our next chance for synoptic enhancement of rainfall.

1355	Cells to SE slowly weakening, a couple new ones entering NW quadrant.

1514	Remaining echo is dying out in all quadrants.

1718	New cell fired offshore to south, presumably on LBF at 145/180 km.  Another weak cell has fired in the high terrain at 080/190 km

1827	Cells spreading northward rapidly along offshore LBF to near Mazatlan now

1905	Will go to climofar next scan, cells to south & east being topped

1914	Noticed that Zdr data is bad going back to 1730 (vertical reflectivity messed up).  Don and Johnathan are checking on it.

1915	Went to climoFar

1946	Problems with receiver - we be down until further notice

1955	Problem corrected itself. Running climoshallow.

2000	James Done here

2010	5 minutes of missing data 2010-2015 to get the schedule back on the 15minute mark.

2015	Running climofar to top convection now developing over the SMO in the 0 - 150 sector.	

2100	Switched to microfar135 to capture the afternoon development over the SMO. Center azimuth = 67degrees. RHIs through cells at 97 and 99deg azimuth.

2122	Captured a nice overshooting top in an RHI at 104deg. There may be a problem with the 102deg RHI since the resolution doesn't look good at the bottom. It may have taken a while to settle down.

2137	RHIs at 105 and 107degrees. Nice descending rear inflow jet.

2152	RHIs at 92 and 94 degrees through new convection ahead of main system.

2215	Changed the center azimuth to 77degrees to capture the anvil.

2223	Nice overshooting top and upper-level divergence on the 92degree RHI.

2300	Changed back to climofar because the convection was surrounding the radar > 135 degrees.

2315	Changed to climonear to top the anvils close by.