Archived files for rainfall QPFs, flood outlooks, tide gages, and river gages
Hurrevac2010 Tech Note 6 - posted 3/1/2010
Working with historic storm events has been made much easier in Hurrevac2010 because old storms (STM files) and their text advisories, if not already available on your computer, are intelligently downloaded from data.hurrevac.com at the moment you want to view them. Hurrevac2010, therefore, does not have a file browser like the Manual FTP Panel of Hurrevac2000.
The exception to Hurrevac2010's in-program download of archived files are the rainfall forecasts, flood outlooks, tide gages, and river gages. In the past, these have been archived to varying degrees and thus their availability could not guaranteed by an in-program automatic retrieval system.
Accessing the Archives Through a Web Browser
As a workaround, old rainfall forecasts, flood outlooks, tide gages, and river gages files have been placed in special directories on the data.hurrevac.com site where you can browse and download them using a web browser. The following list will tell you where to find these files, how far back the archive goes, and where to save them on your computer for use in Hurrevac2010.
3-day Quantitative Precipitation Forecast (.QPF files)
- archive of 2005 to present
- located in yearly folders under http://data.hurrevac.com/Rain/
- file naming convention is MMDDTTz_YYYY.qpf (TTz is 24-hr Zulu time)
- WindowsXP: save to C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Hurrevac2010\rain\
- Windows Vista or Windows7: save to C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Hurrevac2010\rain\
5-day River Flood Outlook (.RFO files)
- archive of 2005 to present
- located in yearly folders under http://data.hurrevac.com/Flood/
- file naming convention is MMDDTTz_YYYY.rfo (TTz is 24-hr Zulu time)
- WindowsXP: save to C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Hurrevac2010\flood\
- Windows Vista or Windows7: save to C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Hurrevac2010\flood\
Tide Gages (.TID files)
- archive of Jan 2010 to present
- located in http://data.hurrevac.com/Tides/
- file naming convention is MMDD_YYYY.tid
- WindowsXP: save to C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Hurrevac2010\tides\
- Windows Vista or Windows7: save to C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Hurrevac2010\tides\
River Gages (.RIV files)
- archive of Jan 2010 to present
- located in http://data.hurrevac.com/Rivers/
- file naming convention is MMDD_YYYY.riv
- WindowsXP: save to C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Hurrevac2010\rivers\
- Windows Vista or Windows7: save to C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Hurrevac2010\rivers\
After locating a file that you want from one of the yearly folders, right-click on the file name and choose "Save link as..." from the browser's popup menu. Although you could save your downloaded file to any location on your computer, the folder locations listed above are recommended because they are where Hurrevac2010 will look first.
Loading files in Hurrevac2010
Once the needed files are saved on your computer, go to the 'Rain/Rivers/Tides' heading at the bottom of the Archives Tab's treeview to load these into Hurrevac2010's map display.