20010411: No NEXRAD or MCIDAS

>From: Harry Edmon <address@hidden>
>Organization: University of Washington
>Keywords: 200104111359.f3BDx3L02948 IDD NNEXRAD MCIDAS

Harry,

>I nove not received mcidas or nexrad data via the ldm on
>sunny89.atmos.washington.edu since 0622 GMT.  However, when I try
>notifyme on the same machine, I can see the products.  I have tried
>rebooting sunny89, but still no data.  Is there some hangup on the
>SSEC side?

>From address@hidden Wed Apr 11 08:00:53 2001
>Subject: No nexrad or Mcidas - it figures

>It figures - as soon as I send you a problem report, the data starts
>flowing again.  Do you know why it stopped in the first place?

You are right, as soon as you sent in the message data started flowing.

As to why this happened, we don't yet know, but we can verify the
outage by noting the gap in GOES-West IR images received on motherlode:

 335  G-10 IMG      11 APR 01101  07:00:00    24  137 4
 336  G-10 IMG      11 APR 01101  08:00:00    24  137 4
 337  G-10 IMG      11 APR 01101  13:00:00    24  137 4
 338  G-10 IMG      11 APR 01101  14:00:00    24  137 4

SSEC did have a brief power hiccup yesterday morning (lasted less than
an hour), so maybe they had another today.  The odd thing is that they
are usually very good about sending an announcement explaining that
they are down and then a follow-up message when service is restored.
I will be on the lookout for the latter message.

Tom