diff --git a/.vscode/launch.json b/.vscode/launch.json
index 370cbd0..47bb801 100644
--- a/.vscode/launch.json
+++ b/.vscode/launch.json
@@ -350,7 +350,9 @@
             //   File "/src/data/resample.py", line 736,  IndexError: index -1 is out of bounds for axis 0 with size 0
             // "args": ["-v", "1", "--mission", "2006.338.11", "--noinput", "--no_cleanup" ],
             // File "/src/data/create_products.py", line 997, in _plot_var AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_index'
-            "args": ["-v", "1", "--mission", "2010.257.00", "--noinput", "--no_cleanup" ],
+            //"args": ["-v", "1", "--mission", "2010.257.00", "--noinput", "--no_cleanup" ],
+            // File "/src/data/create_products.py", line 806, ValueError: max() iterable argument is empty 
+            "args": ["-v", "1", "--mission", "2013.079.00", "--noinput", "--no_cleanup" ],
 
         },
         {
diff --git a/src/data/create_products.py b/src/data/create_products.py
index c893cb5..3d65a7d 100755
--- a/src/data/create_products.py
+++ b/src/data/create_products.py
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ def _grid_dims(self) -> tuple:
                 "Cannot compute mean longitude for UTM zone calculation, "
                 "longitude data may be empty or contain NaNs",
             )
-            return None, None, None
+            return np.array([]), np.array([]), xr.DataArray()
         MAX_LONGITUDE_VALUES = 400
         n_subsample = 200 if len(self.ds.cf["longitude"].to_numpy()) > MAX_LONGITUDE_VALUES else 1
         lon_sub_intrp = np.interp(
@@ -1125,7 +1125,7 @@ def plot_2column(self) -> str:  # noqa: C901, PLR0912, PLR0915
         self._open_ds()
 
         idist, iz, distnav = self._grid_dims()
-        if idist is None or iz is None or distnav is None:
+        if idist.size == 0 or iz.size == 0 or distnav.size == 0:
             self.logger.warning("Skipping plot_2column due to missing gridding dimensions")
             return None