4 August 2004

0047	Cells to west are slowly collapsing.  Watching to see if ClimoNear will be needed - yes, will do that next scan.  MCS to NW finally leaving scope.  Some strong cells to SE @ > 160 km range; heading for coast.

0300 	James Done and David Ahijevych arrived.

0500	Raining at site.  Stratiform precipitation associated with multicell activity traveling NW (missed Mazatlan area).  Scattered activity over northern SMO (popcorn convection).  More cells now along the SMO range in the radar domain.

0600	Line of cells formed to the north of radar site over the coastal plain, and more cells triggering over the southeast radar domain over high orography.

0615	Rain the profiler sequen ce during stratiform precipitation.

0630	Back to ClimoNear.

0740	Landbreeze emerges, possibly in association with a cold pool outflow from the stratiform precip system - now only just clearing from above the radar site.

0812	General point - all storms that developed over the high terrain (during today's shift) dissipated as they tracked NW over the coastal plain.  But independent cells triggered over the coastal plain.

0815	This scan (ClimoNear) didn't start until 08:18:54 for some reason and so finished at 08:31:13.  I caught it at 08:37 in time to restart and get a rain map before restarting at 08:45.

0900	General point: Convective triggering/intensification appears to conistently occur over the southeast radar domain over high terrain (114 km from radar at 134 deg).

1200	Sarah & Gustavo here.

1245	Switched to ClimoFar.

1345	Switched to ClimoShallow.

1800	Switched to ClimoFar.  Convection developed in past 15-30 min WSW of radar at 60 km to where it's not topped by 6.7 deg anymore.  Steve N. and Simona B. here.

2110	Some storms have fired to the E of the radar and are moving this way.  Storms have collapsed. over the ocean and only some boundaries remain.  Will stay in ClimoFar until anvils of storms to E approach or something else approaches.

2130	ClimoNear - storm to NE topped.

2323	Scattered storms still apparent over land with little organization (yet).  A stronger cell has developed along 120 deg radial and 100 km range that is nearly stationary.

2336	Cell to SE seems to be somewhat orographically forced - convection not really reaching tropopause.