Long radar loops?

[Dennis Gulley]

Hi all. Ive been away from stormtrack for a few years mainly due to a lack of
interesting weather here in Ne. My question is how or where can I get radar
loops that has more than 10 scans? I would like to see how a storm system progresses say over a 12 to 24 hr period. Is this possible?

Thanks Dennis

 

[Van DeWald]

The radar page at Weather Underground http://www.weatherunderground.com/ has an option to view a 24 hour radar loop. i think it gives you one radar image per hour. The radar page at NCAR http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/radar/ has a 24 hour archive, but I doubt you'd be able to view the full 24 hours at once as it loads in imagery from every volume scan.

 

[Andrew Herron]

I can provide a free year subscription to Wunderground to anyone that is interested, just PM me.

 

[Justin Turcotte]

You can get some longer loops on UCAR including velocity.

 

[Jim Hunt]

You can use GRLevel3 to see realtime data and set the animation as large as you like. However, even better is you can use it to load free data from the NWS and review a storm from 1994 forward.

http://www.grlevelx.com/

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/nexradinv/

(All of my radar data requests have been processed and available for download in less than 30 minutes.)

 

[Skip Talbot]

You can use GRLevel3 to see realtime data and set the animation as large as you like. However, even better is you can use it to load free data from the NWS and review a storm from 1994 forward.

http://www.grlevelx.com/

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/nexradinv/

(All of my radar data requests have been processed and available for download in less than 30 minutes.)

Can you set the animation as long as you want? I believe I have the latest build and it limits the loop to the last 20 scans.

 

[Jim Hunt]

Can you set the animation as long as you want? I believe I have the latest build and it limits the loop to the last 20 scans.

Well, I guess is must be between 5 and 20 but you can use archived data.

 

[Skip Talbot]

Yeah it only loads 20 volumes even with archived data. :\

 

[Darin Brunin]

The SPC has data from severe events including radar archived at http://w1.spc.woc.noaa.gov/exper/archive/events/searchindex.html

not sure if this is the kind of thing you are looking for

Darin

 

[Dennis Gulley]

What im looking for is storms that develop out in western Ks and NE and work their way across the state over night. They are usually out west when I go
to bed and when I wake up they have already passed over into Iowa and I would like to see how the whole thing progressed while I was sleeping.

Dennis

 

[Mike Hollingshead]

One route, a long and pain in the butt one, is to use the GRx ap or even the free NSSL one and grab frames. Take the fames and put them into about any video editor and make a clip. You can do some pretty large ones, but obviously storms will be moving to new radar sites.