diff --git a/parm/use_cases/model_applications/short_range/Point2Grid_obsLSR_ObsOnly_PracticallyPerfect/read_ascii_storm.py b/parm/use_cases/model_applications/short_range/Point2Grid_obsLSR_ObsOnly_PracticallyPerfect/read_ascii_storm.py
index 1340e3b274..9588eb2efe 100644
--- a/parm/use_cases/model_applications/short_range/Point2Grid_obsLSR_ObsOnly_PracticallyPerfect/read_ascii_storm.py
+++ b/parm/use_cases/model_applications/short_range/Point2Grid_obsLSR_ObsOnly_PracticallyPerfect/read_ascii_storm.py
@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@
 #Allows for concatenating storm reports together
 temp_data = temp_data[temp_data["Time"] != "Time"]
 
+# strip out any rows that have any null/NaN values
+temp_data = temp_data[~temp_data.isnull().any(axis=1)]
+
 #Change some columns to floats and ints
 temp_data[["Lat","Lon"]] = temp_data[["Lat","Lon"]].apply(pd.to_numeric)