Information regarding LAMP Products on the NWS server
The GFS-LAMP guidance is currently available every hour.
The GFS LAMP station guidance is available in the following formats:
ASCII text bulletin and BUFR format. The GFS LAMP gridded
Lightning and Convection guidance is available in GRIB2 format.
Beginning July 25, 2006, these products are being disseminated via the NWS
Telecommunications Gateway to the SBN and NOAAPORT. In addition, the guidance
is available on the LAMP web site
http://weather.gov/mdl/gfslamp/gfslamp.shtml
Beginning August 8, 2006, the GFS LAMP products are also
be available via anonymous ftp from the NWS tgftp server. The details for retrieving
the data from the NWS server can be found in the table below.
Beginning March 11, 2014, the GFS LAMP new convection and upgraded lightning products
will be available via anonymous ftp from the NWS tgftp server.
The details for retrieving
the data from the NWS server can be found in the table below.
For details regarding the ASCII text product see
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/mdl/gfslamp/docs/LAMP_description.shtml
For details regarding the BUFR product see
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/mdl/gfslamp/docs/BufrLAMPintro05.shtml
For details regarding the GRIB2 products see
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/mdl/gfslamp/docs/lampgrib2.shtml
GFS LAMP Products available on NWS server
ftp to tgftp.nws.noaa.gov
username is anonymous
supply your email address for the password
set type ASCII for text data
set type binary for BUFR and GRIB2 data
Data Type
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NWS server location
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ASCII Text Bulletin
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SL.us008001/DF.anf/DC.lampgfs/cy.HH.txt where HH=cycle hour
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for web access click here
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BUFR
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SL.us008001/DF.bf/DC.lampgfs/cy.HH.bin where HH=cycle hour
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for web access click here
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GRIB2
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Lightning Probabilities in a 2-hr period, on a 5-km grid:
SL.us008001/ST.opnl/DF.gr2/DC.ndgd/GT.lampgfs/AR.conus/ds.pts02.bin
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Lightning Thunderstorm Occurrence (Yes/No) in a 2-hr period, on a 5-km grid:
SL.us008001/ST.opnl/DF.gr2/DC.ndgd/GT.lampgfs/AR.conus/ds.ots02.bin
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for web access click here
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On or about March 25, 2014, the following GRIB2 messages:
LAMP Lightning Probabilities, on a 2.5km grid: ds.plt02.bin
LAMP Forecast Potential (no/low/medium/high) of lightning occurring,
on a 2.5km grid: ds.olt02.bin
LAMP Convection Probabilities, on a 2.5km grid: ds.pcv02.bin
LAMP Forecast Potential (no/low/medium/high) of convection occurring,
on a 2.5km grid: ds.ocv02.bin
will be available in this location:
ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/SL.us008001/ST.opnl/DF.gr2/DC.ndgd/GT.glmp/AR.conus/VP.001-003/
We will remove the following files:
Lightning Probabilities in a 2-hr period, on a 5-km grid: ds.pts02.bin
Thunderstorm Occurrence (Yes/No) in a 2-hr period, on a 5-km grid: ds.ots02.bin
from this directory:
ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/SL.us008001/ST.opnl/DF.gr2/DC.ndgd/GT.lampgfs/AR.conus
The above directory and its parent directory:
ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/SL.us008001/ST.opnl/DF.gr2/DC.ndgd/GT.lampgfs
will also be removed from the NWS tgftp server.
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