A mock weather warning issue console for a university radar and satellite course.

Built with the Jekyll site generator, which is necessary to generate the site from these files. Under the hood is a mix of jQuery and Javascript. It requires a MySQL database (no GIS extensions necessary) and a PHP webserver.

MySQL attributes are specified in the settings.ini file. Styling is done by Boostrap and Jekyll. A script is found in /scripts to create and setup the necessary MySQL table. An Apache configuration file is also included to prevent outside access to the MySQL settings file.

Based on the default setup, the images/ directory is user-generated and will contain all of the images for the website--the radar overlays for the map, the map tiles, and the supplementary observation data. The structure is as follows:

images/
  obs/
    1kmv/
      ...
    300mb/
      ...
    500mb/
      ...
    700mb/
      ...
    850mb/
      ...
    outlooks/
      ...
    private/
      ...
    radiosondes/
      ...
    shr6/
      ...
    surface/
      ...
    wv/
      ...
    ...
  maptiles/
    *standard map tile setup*
  radar/
    latest.png
    private/
      YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM.png
      YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM.png
      ...

Since this tool will likely be used during a time evolving event, private/ directories are used to store files for times that have not yet occurred. Ideally, a script will copy these images to their respective directories as time evolves. Note for the radar layer images that the file should be copied one directory up from private/ and renamed to latest.png.

Alternatively, if this tool is used to host multiple events, everything can be moved into a subdirectory and respective javascript files changed. (Perhaps in the future, an automated templating system can be implemented.)