Radar .WCTFAVS Files

WCTFAVS files work exclusively in NOAA's Weather Climate Toolkit (WCT). Files of the .wctfav extension are tab-delimited text files where each line represents a product. The first column is the html link to the file of interest, the second column is a human-readable description of the file. These files can be loaded using the favorites tab in the Data Selector of WCT. Though use is typically to store your favorite or most-frequently accessed data, I engineered these files with Python, specifically for use with the favorites feature. They specifically access the most recent Level-III radar data.

WCT makes accessing Level-II data very simple, but L3 data is a little more difficult, although MUCH easier than before. You can now access the data via a menu process, but if you find that to get cumbersome, these files may help you. Especially if you want to use WCT in near-real time.

* For convenience, mrms_products.wctfavs was also included, it linking the most-recent MRMS Products

What makes the use of these files possible is that on the NWS servers, they include a file: sn.last, which will always hold the newest data for a given product. So each WCTFAV file can pull up the most recent data for a given product. TDWR Sites Files are grouped together by State.