Re: [mcidas-x] [External] Re: Question about receiving GLM data from an ADDE server

  • To: 'Mike Zuranski' <zuranski.wx@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: [mcidas-x] [External] Re: Question about receiving GLM data from an ADDE server
  • From: "Sebenste, Gilbert" <sebensteg@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:54:24 +0000
Hey Mike,

Thanks. Is this it? It doesn’t look like it…the data come across the NOTHER 
feed.

# Generate 5-min GLM aggregations:
NIMAGE  GeostationaryLightningMapper/CONUS/.*/(OR_GLM-L2-GLMC-M3_G(..)_s(.*).*)
        EXEC    /blah/blah/blah/blah/etc/etc/etc/convert_glmva.py

Otherwise, I’ll have to hunt it down.

Gilbert Sebenste
Meteorology Support Analyst

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From: Mike Zuranski <zuranski.wx@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2026 10:27 AM
To: Sebenste, Gilbert <sebensteg@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: [External] Re: [mcidas-x] Question about receiving GLM data from an 
ADDE server

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Hi Gilbert,

>   NWS says the data is still going out fine.
I haven't checked in a little bit but this has been an on/off problem for 
something like a year now.  The one minute aggregations, level2, that data is 
still going out last I saw.  But they stopped sending the five minute 
aggregations, level3, which is what your site uses.  The argument was end sites 
(i.e. WFOs) can make their own five-minute aggregations from the one-minute 
data.  This is something AWIPS can do, and since that is the intended 
audience... well this is all working as intended then right??
I'm including a python script that can do this aggregation, you'll need to make 
a couple edits for your environment.  IIRC I put this on your system and was 
about to turn it on when I saw they reinstated flowing level3 data, so I left 
it there disabled in case this happened again.  I forget exactly what state 
that's in, but you might just need to enable a pqact if you're lucky.  Look 
around to see if I already put this script someplace there for you.

best,
-Mike

On Mon, Apr 27, 2026 at 10:38 AM Sebenste, Gilbert 
<sebensteg@xxxxxxx<mailto:sebensteg@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
Good morning everyone,

About a week ago, I suddenly lost our GLM derived flash data for no apparent 
reason. Single strikes are coming in and plotting fine, but derived data such 
as Total Optical Energy (TOE), etc suddenly disappeared on my end. NWS says the 
data is still going out fine.

Until I can figure this out on my end, I decided that maybe I should just get 
it from the UNIDATA ADDE server
for now. I tried to do this:

dsserve.k ADD RTGOESR/GLMEVENT GLMN TYPE=POINT 
INFO=/home/mcidas/data/GLM_EVENT.cfg 
ADDE.UNIDATA.UCAR.EDU<http://adde.unidata.ucar.edu/>

But it gives me this error:
dsserve.k: You must enter a min and max file  pair with this dataset.
dsserve.k: done

Can anyone tell me what am I doing wrong?

Thank you!

Gilbert Sebenste
Meteorology Support Analyst
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