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LMA Flash Extent Density Data Used for Warning Decision
The Huntsville office has a long history of using total lightning information from the North Alabama Lightning Mapping Array (NALMA) for warning decision-making. Since 2003, WFO Huntsville has been...
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A New Total Lightning Web Display
The SPoRT Center regularly works to display unique data in products, such as total lightning from ground-based lightning mapping arrays (LMAs), in the Weather Service’s display system; AWIPS II....
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Total Lightning Highlights Trailing Stratiform Threat for IDSS
NWS Huntsville is providing Impact-Based Decision Support Services (IDSS) to protect life and property at an outdoor sporting competition in the Decatur, Alabama area this week. A decaying Mesoscale...
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Total Lightning Data Use During Summertime Convection…
Here at the Huntsville, AL Weather Forecast Office (WFO) we’ve pointed out total lightning data’s operational utility a number of times in this blog. After all, the data have been a rather integral...
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NASA SPoRT Helps Prepare for GOES-R
November 19th has been eagerly anticipated by the meteorological community as it is the launch of the next-generation GOES-R satellite. The satellite will carry a suite of space weather instruments as...
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Utilizing Total Lightning and the Tracking Meteogram Tool to Assist in the...
Herein is an example of the Tracking Meteogram Tool, which was developed by NASA SPoRT, being used to track and create a time series plot of the total lightning associated with a thunderstorm at the...
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Total Lightning and IDSS in Stratiform Precipitation
A methane explosion occurred last Friday, January 20, in rural northwest Alabama (story from WAFF-TV). NWS Huntsville provided decision support services to the incident, which posed significant risks...
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Lightning Jump in the North Alabama Lightning Mapping Array
It’s a busy day in North Alabama with NASA and NOAA aircraft in the region supporting a field campaign for GOES-16. Another instrument supporting activities is the North Alabama Lightning Mapping...
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GLM is coming: Preparations
Creating demonstration data and products to train forecasters for GLM has presented unique challenges. Aside from the Optical Transient Detector (OTD) and the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS), no other...
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Reconstructing a Rare Bolt from the Blue Event Using Multiple Lightning Datasets
Written by Chris Schultz On August 20, 2019, much of the Midwest was impacted by several rounds of severe thunderstorms. These electrically active thunderstorms produced wind damage across Iowa,...
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