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System and method for lightning strike prediction and warning

  • US 10,408,972 B1
  • Filed: 04/20/2018
  • Issued: 09/10/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/20/2018
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for predicting lightning, comprising:

  • a device having a processor, display and user input capability;

    receiving at said device a user defined area of concern for lightning strike activity;

    the device collecting vertical temperature data for said defined area of concern from one or more weather temperature models;

    said device operable to calculate the lightning formation critical lower bound height and critical upper bound height;

    calculating a critical updraft temperature height by utilizing pre-determined instability parameters to determine the critical updraft temperature height within a storm cloud and setting the calculated critical updraft temperature height as the critical upper bound height;

    receiving at said device radar reflectivity data for said defined area of concern;

    parsing radar reflectivity from individual radar reflectivity scan data;

    associating parsed radar reflectivity with said lower bound height and said upper bound height;

    compare the parsed radar reflectivity associated with said lower bound height and said upper bound height against a pre-set lighting strike threshold value;

    when the pre-set lightning strike threshold value is exceeded, formatting at least a lightning strike warning and time until strike warning for said defined area of concern to at least one user;

    said device transmitting said lightning strike warning and said time until strike warning to the at least one user.

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