Vikhammer lightning detection radar

A home grown hobby project

Tracking of lightning activity and what direction it's takes.
Check out to see if there is time to take some caution about
personnel, data equipment, tv's and other electric and electronic gear

Provided by Radioamateur station LA9QFA

Please notice! Long Distant Reception depending of the radio wave conditions at the present time lightning occoures.
When bad radio wave condition occures there is no reception over longer ranges!

Symbols and buttons:

Please push the Full or Zoom button for selectable range views.
Full (600km) or zoom (300km) range. Standard view when opening this webpage is zoom (300km).

Push the selectable history buttons, 30 or 60 minutes to go back in time.
Push Stop or Run button to play history.

Although my strive to get accurate data, this lightning data is only approximate!

Strike locations indicated and alarm statuses are as accurate as possible, but may be erroneouse.
The radar should have good receptions up to 600km or more.

+ CG Positive cloud to ground strike
x CG Negative cloud to ground strike

6 IC Positive cloud or intracloud strike (sky til sky)
5 IC Negative cloud or intracloud strike (sky til sky)

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Accumulated today: Strikes: Lightning records since midnight.
Noises: all electrical interference since midtnight, it's filtered out and will not detect as lightning strikes!
Please Notice: Strikes Total: The lightning records is for the latest 60 minutes

Here is a screen shoot of the main program, this window need to be reloaded! Please use the RELOAD facility on your browser -
The Display is Updating every 5 minute

Bearing: Lightning strike azimuth on the map.
Strike/min: Lightning strike density each minute.
Close/min: Lightning strike activity innside the red ring on the map. Depending of where the thunderstorm or lightnig activity take direction, it's time to take some caution about personnel, data or other equipment.
Noise/min: Noise from different sources that is not a lightning strike, it's been filtered out and will not count as a strike.
Scuelch: Noise filter level on the radar receiver.
Persistence: Time that symbols is displayed on the map, now 5 hours.
Range: Covering area on the map for the moment.
Upload:Data stream to the StormVue map above is active

Capture: Capturing this map picture every 5 minute.
Reciever: enabled, or disabled for service reasons.
Uptime: Hours and minutes the system have been active.
Peak Rate: Indicate the highest strike rate that has occoured.
Peak Time: Indicates at which time the peak strike rate occured.
Trend Graph: Trend graph shows activity over the last 12 hours and has two graphs, one for total strikes and one for close strikes inside the red ring on the map.
Severe Indicator Line: Reflects the Severe Alarm Settings, on this radar set to 20 strikes/min.

Range of this map can change due to experimenting

All history restart at midnight

+ CGPositive cloud to ground strike
x CG Negative cloud to ground strike
6 IC Positive cloud or intracloud strike (sky til sky)
5 IC Negative cloud or intracloud strike (sky til sky)

Notice!

The system detects lightning strikes that can be outside this map view. If stirkes is detected and you don't see any plot, go to the StormVue map above that have greather coverage.