From hwolot at goshenarc.org Tue Feb 20 00:35:34 2007 From: hwolot at goshenarc.org (Hazardous Weather Outlooks - NWS LOT) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:35:34 -0500 Subject: [HWOLOT] Notice/update regarding email weather bulletins Message-ID: <20070220003559.40E423A004E@mail.goshen.edu> As many of you have noticed there have not been a lot of weather bulletins coming to you by email in the last month or so. The cold weather has exposed the slow failure of the LNB (low-noise block down-converter) on my Ku-band EMWIN satellite downlink. When LNBs get old, their center-frequencies become very temperature dependent. In other words, the colder outside it gets, the futher off-frequency it drifts, until the signal drops to below the noise threshhold. At that point the ingest engines locks up and no more message get parsed. So as long as the temperature stays above the mid-twenties, the data will keep flowing. A new LNB has been ordered, and hopefully the four-foot snow drift around the dish will melt about the same time the new LNB shows up. That's the update...it appears to be running smoothly right now with the temperatures mild, so we'll see what happens in the next week. If you are on more that one list, you have received one message for each list that you are on. Apologies for any duplicates. ---------------------------------------------------------- Calvin F. Swartzendruber calvinfs at goshen.edu From hwolot at goshenarc.org Tue Feb 20 10:37:21 2007 From: hwolot at goshenarc.org (Hazardous Weather Outlooks - NWS LOT) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 05:37:21 -0500 Subject: [HWOLOT] HWOLOT Message-ID: FLUS43 KLOT 201042 HWOLOT HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL 430 AM CST TUE FEB 20 2007 ILZ003>006-008-010>014-019>022-023-032-033-039-INZ001-002-010-011- 019-211100- WINNEBAGO-BOONE-MCHENRY-LAKE IL-OGLE-LEE-DE KALB-KANE-DU PAGE-COOK- LA SALLE-KENDALL-GRUNDY-WILL-KANKAKEE-LIVINGSTON-IROQUOIS-FORD- LAKE IN-PORTER-NEWTON-JASPER-BENTON- 430 AM CST TUE FEB 20 2007 THIS PORTION OF THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST ILLINOIS...AND NORTHWEST INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY RUN OFF FROM MELTING SNOW ALONG WITH THAT FROM RAIN EXPECTED THIS WEEKEND IS EXPECTED TO RESULT IN SIGNIFICANT RISES ON THE KANKAKEE RIVER BEGINNING FRIDAY NIGHT. PORTIONS OF THE KANKAKEE RIVER MY BE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NECESSARY. && COMPLETE FORECAST INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE NWS CHICAGO WEBPAGE: WEATHER.GOV/CHICAGO $$ LMZ740>745-766-211100- WINTHROP HARBOR IL TO MICHIGAN CITY IN- LAKE MICHIGAN- 430 AM CST TUE FEB 20 2007 THIS PORTION OF THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE ILLINOIS AND INDIANA WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. && COMPLETE FORECAST INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE NWS CHICAGO WEBPAGE: WEATHER.GOV/CHICAGO $$  From hwolot at goshenarc.org Wed Feb 21 04:48:19 2007 From: hwolot at goshenarc.org (Hazardous Weather Outlooks - NWS LOT) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:48:19 -0500 Subject: [HWOLOT] HWOLOT Message-ID: FLUS43 KLOT 210453 AAA HWOLOT HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL 1055 PM CST TUE FEB 20 2007 ILZ003>006-008-010>014-019>022-023-032-033-039-INZ001-002-010-011- 019-211100- WINNEBAGO-BOONE-MCHENRY-LAKE IL-OGLE-LEE-DE KALB-KANE-DU PAGE-COOK- LA SALLE-KENDALL-GRUNDY-WILL-KANKAKEE-LIVINGSTON-IROQUOIS-FORD- LAKE IN-PORTER-NEWTON-JASPER-BENTON- 1055 PM CST TUE FEB 20 2007 THIS PORTION OF THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST ILLINOIS...AND NORTHWEST INDIANA. .DAY ONE... OVERNIGHT AREAS OF FOG ARE EXPECTED OVERNIGHT. THE RESULT OF FOG WITH TEMPERATURES DROPPING BELOW FREEZING COULD MAKE BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES PARTICULARLY SLIPPERY WITH BLACK ICE. MOTORISTS WILL NEED TO BE ALERT FOR SLICK ROADS OVERNIGHT. FOG MAY BECOME DENSE ENOUGH IN SOME AREAS TO PROMPT A FREEZING FOG ADVISORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY A WINTRY MIX OF FREEZING RAIN...SLEET...AND SNOW IS POSSIBLE NORTH OF I-80 FRIDAY NIGHT. RUNOFF FROM MELTING SNOW COMBINED WITH RAIN EXPECTED THIS WEEKEND COULD RESULT IN SIGNIFICANT RISES ON THE KANKAKEE RIVER BEGINNING FRIDAY NIGHT. PORTIONS OF THE KANKAKEE RIVER MY BE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NECESSARY. && COMPLETE FORECAST INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE NWS CHICAGO WEBPAGE: WEATHER.GOV/CHICAGO $$ LMZ740>745-766-211100- WINTHROP HARBOR IL TO MICHIGAN CITY IN- LAKE MICHIGAN- 1055 PM CST TUE FEB 20 2007 THIS PORTION OF THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE ILLINOIS AND INDIANA WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE... OVERNIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. && COMPLETE FORECAST INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE NWS CHICAGO WEBPAGE: WEATHER.GOV/CHICAGO $$  From hwolot at goshenarc.org Tue Feb 20 00:35:34 2007 From: hwolot at goshenarc.org (Hazardous Weather Outlooks - NWS LOT) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:35:34 -0500 Subject: [HWOLOT] Notice/update regarding email weather bulletins Message-ID: <20070220003559.40E423A004E@mail.goshen.edu> As many of you have noticed there have not been a lot of weather bulletins coming to you by email in the last month or so. The cold weather has exposed the slow failure of the LNB (low-noise block down-converter) on my Ku-band EMWIN satellite downlink. When LNBs get old, their center-frequencies become very temperature dependent. In other words, the colder outside it gets, the futher off-frequency it drifts, until the signal drops to below the noise threshhold. At that point the ingest engines locks up and no more message get parsed. So as long as the temperature stays above the mid-twenties, the data will keep flowing. A new LNB has been ordered, and hopefully the four-foot snow drift around the dish will melt about the same time the new LNB shows up. That's the update...it appears to be running smoothly right now with the temperatures mild, so we'll see what happens in the next week. If you are on more that one list, you have received one message for each list that you are on. Apologies for any duplicates. ---------------------------------------------------------- Calvin F. Swartzendruber calvinfs at goshen.edu From hwolot at goshenarc.org Tue Feb 20 10:37:21 2007 From: hwolot at goshenarc.org (Hazardous Weather Outlooks - NWS LOT) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 05:37:21 -0500 Subject: [HWOLOT] HWOLOT Message-ID: FLUS43 KLOT 201042 HWOLOT HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL 430 AM CST TUE FEB 20 2007 ILZ003>006-008-010>014-019>022-023-032-033-039-INZ001-002-010-011- 019-211100- WINNEBAGO-BOONE-MCHENRY-LAKE IL-OGLE-LEE-DE KALB-KANE-DU PAGE-COOK- LA SALLE-KENDALL-GRUNDY-WILL-KANKAKEE-LIVINGSTON-IROQUOIS-FORD- LAKE IN-PORTER-NEWTON-JASPER-BENTON- 430 AM CST TUE FEB 20 2007 THIS PORTION OF THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST ILLINOIS...AND NORTHWEST INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY RUN OFF FROM MELTING SNOW ALONG WITH THAT FROM RAIN EXPECTED THIS WEEKEND IS EXPECTED TO RESULT IN SIGNIFICANT RISES ON THE KANKAKEE RIVER BEGINNING FRIDAY NIGHT. PORTIONS OF THE KANKAKEE RIVER MY BE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NECESSARY. && COMPLETE FORECAST INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE NWS CHICAGO WEBPAGE: WEATHER.GOV/CHICAGO $$ LMZ740>745-766-211100- WINTHROP HARBOR IL TO MICHIGAN CITY IN- LAKE MICHIGAN- 430 AM CST TUE FEB 20 2007 THIS PORTION OF THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE ILLINOIS AND INDIANA WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. && COMPLETE FORECAST INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE NWS CHICAGO WEBPAGE: WEATHER.GOV/CHICAGO $$  From hwolot at goshenarc.org Wed Feb 21 04:48:19 2007 From: hwolot at goshenarc.org (Hazardous Weather Outlooks - NWS LOT) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:48:19 -0500 Subject: [HWOLOT] HWOLOT Message-ID: FLUS43 KLOT 210453 AAA HWOLOT HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL 1055 PM CST TUE FEB 20 2007 ILZ003>006-008-010>014-019>022-023-032-033-039-INZ001-002-010-011- 019-211100- WINNEBAGO-BOONE-MCHENRY-LAKE IL-OGLE-LEE-DE KALB-KANE-DU PAGE-COOK- LA SALLE-KENDALL-GRUNDY-WILL-KANKAKEE-LIVINGSTON-IROQUOIS-FORD- LAKE IN-PORTER-NEWTON-JASPER-BENTON- 1055 PM CST TUE FEB 20 2007 THIS PORTION OF THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST ILLINOIS...AND NORTHWEST INDIANA. .DAY ONE... OVERNIGHT AREAS OF FOG ARE EXPECTED OVERNIGHT. THE RESULT OF FOG WITH TEMPERATURES DROPPING BELOW FREEZING COULD MAKE BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES PARTICULARLY SLIPPERY WITH BLACK ICE. MOTORISTS WILL NEED TO BE ALERT FOR SLICK ROADS OVERNIGHT. FOG MAY BECOME DENSE ENOUGH IN SOME AREAS TO PROMPT A FREEZING FOG ADVISORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY A WINTRY MIX OF FREEZING RAIN...SLEET...AND SNOW IS POSSIBLE NORTH OF I-80 FRIDAY NIGHT. RUNOFF FROM MELTING SNOW COMBINED WITH RAIN EXPECTED THIS WEEKEND COULD RESULT IN SIGNIFICANT RISES ON THE KANKAKEE RIVER BEGINNING FRIDAY NIGHT. PORTIONS OF THE KANKAKEE RIVER MY BE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NECESSARY. && COMPLETE FORECAST INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE NWS CHICAGO WEBPAGE: WEATHER.GOV/CHICAGO $$ LMZ740>745-766-211100- WINTHROP HARBOR IL TO MICHIGAN CITY IN- LAKE MICHIGAN- 1055 PM CST TUE FEB 20 2007 THIS PORTION OF THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE ILLINOIS AND INDIANA WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE... OVERNIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. && COMPLETE FORECAST INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE NWS CHICAGO WEBPAGE: WEATHER.GOV/CHICAGO $$