Year = 1999 Month = February Day = 18 Day-of-year = 049 Site = Poker Flat Sunrise = 17:45 Sunset = 02:22 Moonrise = 18:31 Moonset = 04:58 Moon_age = 2 Aurora = Major Storm - Bright aurora occurred at mid-latitudes Cloud = Clear all night Magnetometer = Severe Storm ASC = Long moondown, ran OK MSP = Ran all night on all channels VHF_radar = Good data coverage for the entire 24 hours Electrojet = Good data coverage from real-time calculations SDI = Ran all night, very good and very interesting data Bomem = No data MSG = Unknown Trailer = Unknown UW_FPI = Unknown CRL_NF_FPI = Unknown CRL_AS_FPI = Unknown Stratosperic_lidar = Unknown Rayleigh_lidar = Unknown Resonance_lidar = Unknown Ebert = Ran all night, good data Comments = Beautiful SDI data! Takeshi Sakanoi told me there was a patch of snow on the SDI dome until about 09 UT - when he cleared it off. It was either too small or too thin to degrade the horizontal winds much, according to the data. Vertical winds before then would be unreliable. There is a huge vertical wind event at 09:37 UT - AFTER Takeshi cleaned the dome. We need to look at this! MC, 23-Feb-1999.