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Jesse Ferrell - CASI had initially asked about update frequency claims
made by AMerican Wx Concepts - here the text of his message:



> > I sent a question to the support people at WeatherConcepts, who claim
> > on the front page of their website www.weatherconcepts.com to have
> > "3-8 minutes updates on all local NEXRAD radar images."  The question
> > was how they could make that claim.  About a month has passed and I
> > have still not received an answer.  Although I know more rapid updates
> > of "local radars" is possible, I am to understand that it is not when
> > under the constraints of the NIDS contrack from UNISYS, which my
> > sources say WeatherConcepts is under.  Can any of you radar nuts or
> > people involved with NIDS here explain how this is possible?  I was
> > under the impression that UNISYS NIDS products were distributed with
> > update frequencies of 5 (Severe Mode), 6 (Precip Mode), and 10 (Clear
> > Air Mode) minutes.  If they are indeed able to provide more rapid
> > updates than the competition this would be a clear advantage.  Then
> > again, if they cannot, I would think they would not want to mislead
> > people.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for helping me clear this up.
> 

Here is the most definitive answer I could find:

The 5/6/10 minute update constraints are determined by the software in
the
WSR-88D.  They apply to the collection of the raw data, so no one, not a
NIDS
provider, not even the NWS people on site, can get data more
frequently.  The
3-8 minute update claim by Weather Concepts cannot be true.


I hope this help.

I apologize for cross posting across the three groups, but I lost the
original newsgroup Jesse posted to.

Dennis Miller