Strange afterglow from lightening

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There are commercial services that record the location and magnitude of all continental lightning strikes. Unfortunately, only some of the realtime strike density data is available to the public. They sell the archived data to insurance companies settling claims for lightning damage.

StrikeStar provides lots of realtime strike data but I don't see any archive data there. If you are really interested in lightning, you can buy a detector and join their network.
 
Dan O. said:
There are commercial services that record the location and magnitude of all continental lightning strikes. Unfortunately, only some of the realtime strike density data is available to the public. They sell the archived data to insurance companies settling claims for lightning damage.

StrikeStar provides lots of realtime strike data but I don't see any archive data there. If you are really interested in lightning, you can buy a detector and join their network.
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Interesting.

With the abundance of strikes that night, how to find that one strike?:)

I doubt they could discriminate the big one or get much closer than 1/4 mile circle accuracy, though. Don't these things operate on differential arrival time of radio signals?

Then there is the funding...

:)

Dave
 
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If I'm reading the data correct, the storm last night in the central US had 3000 lightning events/min. at its peak. Half of the events were negative charge cloud to ground strikes, the other half were cloud to cloud events. Only a small handful were the positive cloud to ground strikes that generate the superbolts.
 
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Dan O. said:
If I'm reading the data correct, the storm last night in the central US had 3000 lightning events/min. at its peak. Half of the events were negative charge cloud to ground strikes, the other half were cloud to cloud events. Only a small handful were the positive cloud to ground strikes that generate the superbolts.
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:confused::confused:

There was only ONE bolt that I was interested in, and it occured ca 22:00hrs USCDT on the 19th.

I see now that they do discriminate by polarity and type of discharge, so I was mistaken there, but I haven't spotted a way to pick out that one bolt from the myriad in our area that night, nor how to view that night's record for the time interval in question without payment (which I can scarcely afford, anyway :o).

Thank you for your effort and help, though. :)

Dave
 
I was always annoyed in the summer for the 5 years I lived in Lubbock, since meteorologist Ron Roberts was always pre-empting television to cream his pants about some possible weather phenomena that the Super Doppler Radar picked up 150 miles away. I did love the intense storms there though, and I love being in Tucson for the intense monsoon storms every summer.
 
Ixion said:
I was always annoyed in the summer for the 5 years I lived in Lubbock, since meteorologist Ron Roberts was always pre-empting television to cream his pants about some possible weather phenomena that the Super Doppler Radar picked up 150 miles away. I did love the intense storms there though, and I love being in Tucson for the intense monsoon storms every summer.
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:D
Heh heh.

He (Roberts)* is still here and still loading his trousers with help from his newest toys such as the 3D views that he constantly rotates and tilts the POV of and the multi-sweep that uses 3 separate radars to for one image (Lubbock, Amarillo, and Midland/Odessa). That boy does LOVE his job (and the camera).

*In his defense, he is serving a very large viewing area (60 to 100 mile radius) with many small communities without their own radar. Most people outside the larger cities are involved directly or indirectly with agriculture and may be out working and need to be alerted to seek cover by their spouse or employer if a tornado system or fast moving storm is heading their way. As you no doubt remember, weather around here can suddenly appear or change path or intensity within minutes.

I, too, enjoy watching some of our really wild-@$$ed storms.:)

Dave
 
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Oh, I completely understand why he does it. I can only imagine his 3D radar views. I remember once my then girlfriend (now wife) sent me to the store one night, and when I left, it was calm, but cloudy. When I walked out of the store, it was hailing, and she told me when I got back that the store got hit by a tornado minutes after I left! :eek:
 
Ixion said:
Oh, I completely understand why he does it. I can only imagine his 3D radar views. I remember once my then girlfriend (now wife) sent me to the store one night, and when I left, it was calm, but cloudy. When I walked out of the store, it was hailing, and she told me when I got back that the store got hit by a tornado minutes after I left! :eek:
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Thats all the proof I need that you really did live here!:D

BTW, were you here to attend TTU? If so, what did you study?

Dave
 
Yes, I went to TTU, graduated in 1999. My wife in 2000. I got a B.S. in Biochemistry and she got a B.A. in Spanish.
 
Ixion said:
Yep. And then we moved to Arizona. :)
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Typical of the strange meanderings of my thought train, that reminds me of a song:



LONDON HOMESICK BLUES
(Gary P. Nunn)


Well, when you're down on your luck,
and you ain't got a buck,
in London you're a goner.
Even London Bridge has fallen down,
and moved to Arizona,
now I know why.
And I'll substantiate the rumor
that the English sense of humor
is drier than the Texas sand.
You can put up your dukes,
and you can bet your boots,
that I'm leavin' just as fast as I can.

Chorus;
I wanna go home with the armadillo.
Good country music from Amarillo and Abilene.
The friendliest people and the prettiest women
you've ever seen.

Well it's cold over here, and I swear,
I wish they'd turn the heat on.
And where in the world is that English girl,
I promised I would meet on the third floor.
And of the whole damn lot, the only friend I got,
is a smoke and a cheap guitar.
My mind keeps roamin', my heart keeps longin'
to be home in a Texas bar.

Chorus

Well, I decided that, I'd get my cowboy hat
and go down to Marble Arch Station.
'Cause when a Texan fancies, he'll take his chances,
and chances will be takin, now that's for sure.
And them Limey eyes, they were eyein' a prize,
that some people call manly footwear.
And they said you're from down South,
and when you open your mouth,
you always seem to put your foot there.

Chorus
Chorus

Dave
 
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