Reports until 00:40, Sunday 08 September 2019
LHO General
corey.gray@LIGO.ORG - posted 00:40, Sunday 08 September 2019 (51800)
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TITLE: 09/08 Owl Shift: 07:00-15:00 UTC (00:00-08:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 112Mpc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Cheryl
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    SEI_CONF state: WINDY
    Wind: 23mph Gusts, 19mph 5min avg
    Primary useism: 0.08 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.17 μm/s

High winds with lightning!  Lots of storm activity...have seen gusts over 30mph. 
QUICK SUMMARY:

Expected to see H1 down since as I was getting ready at home a big wind storm was raging in town.  On the drive out, I saw frequent lightning strikes north of LHO, but as I walked in all looked fine!

But as Cheryl and I were chatting the winds picked up from 10mph to 30.  At around midnight, ASC Pit Control signals, IMC-F on tidal, and many LSC control signals all became noisier.  Range also finally started to drop a little after midnight (7:00).   On DARM blrms, the noise picked up in frequency bands between 20-100Hz.

Possible Fire?  Scanning video we saw some "new light" out in the desert.  Basically directly east of the Vit plant we could see two distinct light sources which looked like possible fires (they were where there lightning strikes).  Did not see any notes on the hanford.gov site or on their app though.  And 15min later we do not see the fire spots...it is also raining a little, too.  Will keep an eye out for fires.

Will reboot video4 since it looks spotty.