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Lightning Manager®Lightning Manager

Lightning Manager® and lightning data are optional purchases. Contact your sales representative for more details.

The display on the Dashboard is automatically available for all of your locations within your purchased lightning region. Simply select the location you wish to view from the Choose a Location drop down menu. Change Settings allows you to set your thresholds. All locations will use the same criteria.

Lightning Manager® uses a color-code to depict the status of lightning at your location. To be counted, lightning strokes must be within the purchased data region AND within the Advisory, Caution, or Warning Range of your location.

About the Lightning Manager® dashboard display:

 

All Clear

The Lightning Manager® is green when no lightning has been detected within the set Warning Range, Caution Range or Advisory Range of the selected location. In this example the Warning Range is set to a radius of 6 miles. The Caution Range is set to a radius of 9 miles and the Advisory Range is set to a radius of 15 miles.

Advisory

The Lightning Manager® is yellow when lightning has been detected within your set Advisory Range but not in your Caution or Warning Range within the chosen All Clear time. (Default all clear time is 15 minutes)

The Advisory All Clear countdown will count down from the most recent strike. A new strike within the Advisory Range but outside of the Caution and Warning Range will reset the Advisory All Clear countdown.  

An Advisory Range must be set for this feature to be operational. If no Advisory Range has been set and no lightning has occurred within the Caution or Warning Range, the Lighting Manager will be green. No advisory strikes will be shown and instead the text will read "No advisory range is set".

Caution

The Lightning Manager® is orange when lightning has been detected within your set Caution Range but not in your Warning Range within the chosen All Clear time. (Default all clear time is 15 minutes)

The Caution All Clear countdown will count down from the most recent strike. A new strike within the Caution Range but outside of the Warning Range will reset the Caution All Clear countdown.  

An Caution Range must be set for this feature to be operational. If no Caution Range has been set and no lightning has occurred within the Advisory or Warning Range, the Lighting Manager will be green. No caution strikes will be shown and instead the text will read "No caution range is set".

Warning

The Lightning Manager® is red when lightning has been detected inside your set Warning Range within the chosen All Clear time. The number of strikes, if any, within the Caution and/or Advisory Ranges are also displayed if the range(s) have been set.

The Warning, Caution and Advisory All Clear countdowns will count down from the most recent strike in each range. All ranges use the same All Clear time. A new strike within the Warning Range will reset the Warning All Clear countdown. Likewise a new strike within the Caution or Advisory Range will reset the respective All Clear countdown.

Outside of purchased area

 

The Lightning Manager tile is collapsed when the latitude and longitude of a location falls outside of the purchased lightning region. No lightning strokes will be counted for this inactive location.

 

Region

Your purchased area is shown within the Lightning Manager® setup screen.

Lightning region

Your lightning area is also enclosed by a gold dotted line in the Weather Viewer.

Animate

View and animate the lightning icons (ground, cloud or both) on the Layered Map.

 

Note:

Lightning Manager® uses the exact latitude and longitude of each monitored location to make its calculations, it is updated with every update of lightning information. Lightning Manager® does not rely on a reporting site.

 

DISCLAIMER: Experience has proven that the timeliness, resolution and manner in which lightning data is displayed does not solely support the effective or reliable use of the data in making decisions of an immediate or short term nature that involve the safety of personnel or material. Any such applications or similar uses by customers are done at the risk of the user and are neither condoned nor recommended by Schneider Electric, Vaisala or Vaisala's suppliers.