After a CQ has been submitted to the system, it is installed and the first run of the query is executed. The execution log provides the user with a window on what is happening inside the system. After the execution is completed, the user can view the first run of the results by pressing the Finish button.

There is a time in the execution of the query where all that is displayed is line after line of dots ("...."). During this time, the CQ system is retrieving information from NOAA, the weather source, and parsing it. This may take some time depending on the speed of the Internet.