Summary reports are a powerful feature of the system.

Simply put, a summary report is information about how a storm and optionally how a storm is expected to affect a particular location or group of locations. There are two types of reports, standard and executive.

You may create them manually or define them to automatically send the output to the desktop, printer, or to another user via Email.

To setup the summary reports to automatically generate their output, do the following.

1.  First, go to Automation Alert Options and activate the "Summary Report Option".

2.  Next, add individual summary reports by selecting the "Add new record" button at the setup summary report option.  This will add a report using a "blank" template.

3. Select the type of summary report you would like to generate. Standard or Executive.

4. Update the new record by entering the Storm Name, Report Sequence and Report Location. A storm name of “ALLACTIVE” will result in the generation of a summary report for all active storms as defined in Automation Alert options. If “No Location” is selected the summary report will not include location specific sections.

5.  Update the remaining fields to complete it's definition.

6.  Finally, since summary reports are automatically generated when new data arrives, in Automation/Alert options, Advanced Tab, you need to specify what  your minimal requirements are that define "new data".  In other words, which NHC advisory data must arrive before initiating a summary report.  We recommend the minimal selection be the Public Advisory, the Forecast Advisory, and the Intermediate Public Advisory.  These advisories contain the critical current and forecast information.   Be aware that selecting all of the advisories may result in a delay of any automated processing as the system waits for all of the advisories to become available.  Selection of "ANY" on the other hand would cause the initiation of automatic process every time any type of new advisory becomes available.  This is not recommended as multiple Summary reports would be generated for each advisory package.   A final note... some advisory packages do not always contain the strike probabilities.  Selection of the Strike Probabilities in this situation may cause the system to never recognize "new data".

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