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U Control: Street Level Radar Help Guide

The U Control: Street Level Radar is a live, animated radar that allows you to zoom into anyplace in the world to check the weather. You also have a choice in how you’d like the map to display. From the top of the map choose from satellite, which shows you a satellite image of your location; map, which shows a view of all the streets and highways; and terrain, which gives you a detailed look at geographical features.

Location

To select a location scroll over Location and enter a city, state, zip code or address into the find box, then click Locate. You can also use the Quick View and choose from Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Lawton, Stillwater, Woodward, Bartlesville, Muskogee or McAlester.

Zoom

If you want to zoom in on a position on the map you can use the slider located on the left hand side of the map. Pushing the bar up will zoom the map in, pushing it down will zoom the map out. Plus, when you hover over the slider bar you can choose a street, city, country or world view which will cause the map to zoom in closer, or zoom out.

Weather

Under the Weather tab on the U Control: Street Level Radar map you can customize your weather forecast by choosing one or all of the following: radar, current conditions, watches and warnings, global lightning and buoy and ship data.

Radar

Shows you what weather systems are on the radar right now! It allows you to track the storm and zoom in on any location to see where the storm is going.

Current Conditions

Shows you what the temperature is right now anywhere in the world. You can also click on the current temperature to get the wind speed and direction, current humidity, visibility and barometer readings.

Watches and Warnings

Shows you which counties are under a weather warning. Plus, when you click the yellow icon you get information from the National Weather Service on what areas are affected and what time the watch or warning is set to end.

Global Lightning

Shows you where lightning is striking! It also shows you the day, time and latitude and longitude of the lightning strike.

Buoy and Ship Data

Shows you the position of buoys and ships in the ocean including the air temperature, water temperature, wind speed, pressure, sky conditions and wave action.

Severe Weather

Under the Severe tab you can choose to change the map to include watches and warnings, global lightning strikes, storm attributes, storm reports and weather outlooks for today and tomorrow.

Watches and Warnings

Displays a variety of government–issued products meant to warn you of hazardous weather conditions.

Global Lightning

When you check the global lightning box you will see all the current lightning strikes from the World–Wide Lightning Location Network.

Storm Attributes

The storm attributes option gives storm cell identifications, including storm characteristics and an animated projected path of the storm.

Storm Reports

Check the box next to storm reports to view all the severe weather reports gathered by the National Weather Service.

Storm Outlooks

Outline the severe weather risk, including the probability of tornadoes, hail and wind by checking the storm outlooks box.

Hurricane

The U Control: Street Level Radar map also gives you the power to track hurricanes. The tools you can choose from include, recon data, wind radii, forecast and track paths and forecast model tracks.

Recon Data

Checking recon data will Display weather data collected by the “Hurricane Hunter” aircraft that are deployed to track tropical systems.

Wind Radii

Selecting the wind radii outlines area that are expected to receive tropical storm and hurricane force winds.

Forecast and Track Paths

This option will display the previous, current and forecast positions of tropical systems, and includes the cone of possible error.

Forecast Model Tracks

The forecast model track shows you the positions of tropical systems as forecasted by numeric weather models.