 Lightning Detection System
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Lightning/2000 v3.4.4 NOWcast (Saturday, October 14, 2006 at 3:10:52 AM CDT)
Assessment: No significant activity
No red alerts
No yellow alerts
No storms detected
0 strokes in past 60 mins.
0 strong CG strokes in past 60 mins.
No energy in past 60 mins.
0 noises in past 60 mins.
EMWIN Fort Worth Lighting Detection System
Lightning/2000 copyright ©2004, Aninoquisi (www.aninoquisi.com)
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Lightning/2000 v3.4.4 Summary (Saturday, October 14, 2006 at 3:08:35 AM CDT)
Since midnight (188.6 mins.):
Total strokes: 0
Total strong strokes: 0
Total noises: 0
Total energy: 0
No alerts of any kind
Peak stroke count: 0
Peak strong stroke count: 0
Peak CID stroke count: 0
Peak noise count: 0
Peak energy count: 0
Peak energy ratio: --
Peak signal strength: 0
Archive data:
700 daily archive files
EMWIN Fort Worth Lighting Detection System
Lightning/2000 copyright ©2004, Aninoquisi (www.aninoquisi.com)
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The lightning detection image is a periodic capture of the Lightning 2000 Real-time Lightning Window. The strokes are positioned on a background map to indicate their approximate location. The locations of the strokes are based on the storm positions developed by
statistical analysis.
Though the real-time lightning window superficially resembles a radar display or other real-time meteorological information, there are some important differences. A single-detector system such as this is unable to determine with any certainty the "depth" of a storm it is detecting. All strokes in a particular direction are considered as a group. A range is assigned to that grouping.
An independent storm that lies directly behind a more nearby storm will not be indicated. Its strokes will get lumped into the nearby storm. This is likely to throw off the range of the nearby storm and make it look more distant than it actually is.
Every effort has been made to allow for the different sources of ranging errors, but it simply isn't possible to come up with a completely accurate range in every case.
The strokes displayed are dependent on storms that are identified in the analysis. Since it is possible for lightning strokes to occur outside of storms in the analysis, every stroke may not be displayed.
The overwhelming majority of pertinent strokes will be displayed. Due to the nature of the lightning detection hardware and software, there are a small fraction of strokes whose positions are not accurately known. The majority of these strokes will not be displayed.
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