Boltek Lightning/2000 - Manual (Page 41)

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Analysis
Analysis window showing a storm just to the west.
Lightning/2000 analyzes the incoming lightning strokes that
have occurred over the last 5-20 minutes. The results of this
analysis are displayed in the Analysis window. Denser areas in
the raw data window are identified as “storms”. A “storm”
doesn’t necessarily mean a single, well-defined storm however.
Storms are normally drawn as hollow wedge shapes, color-
coded by intensity. Storms with a preponderance of positive
cloud-to-ground strokes are shown as solid wedges. That’s
because such storms are more likely to exhibit severe
characteristics than other storms. Such storms can only be
discerned when using the StormTracker or LD-350 hardware.
When using the LD-250, storms undergoing rapid
intensification are shown as solid wedges, and storms that
have recently seen a marked decrease in their stroke rates are
also colored in, but in a darker version of their outline color.