• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Tar Files?

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I am trying to download images onto GRlevel2 from 3/22/05 of the storm I filmed in northern MS. I was wondering how you would untar the file? I see this is what you have to do before viewing in the radar program. Thanks for the help and sorry if I posted this in the wrong forum.
 
If you are using windows, use winzip to unpack the tar archive.

If you are using Unix based system enter this into the command line:
"tar xvf filename.tar"

Hope that helps.
 
IIRC, the option to untar is available only if you request data from a single date (which, because of archival in UTC, is going to be very seldom for most chase cases.) The work around is simple enough, however. Just make a seperate request for each day.

Regards,

Mike
 
IIRC, the option to untar is available only if you request data from a single date (which, because of archival in UTC, is going to be very seldom for most chase cases.) The work around is simple enough, however. Just make a seperate request for each day.

That's a good point. I've tried to download multiple days before, and it didn't work very well.

Also, by the way, NOAA has just released a new Level II and III viewer (using a java application) that is free and open to the public. The URL is http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/radar/jnx/index.html

Gabe
 
Thanks fo the link Gabe. I have the viewer but forgot the link where others can get it.

It's a great app, but be warned; it is written in Java. But it is no where near being the resource hog that IDV is.

And for you GIS fans and gurus, you can export the data as shapefiles! I've been having a lot of fun with that.

Regards,

Mike
 
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