Stormscope
®
WX-500 User’s Guide
4-10
Chapter 4 – Weather Display Interpretation
Special Patterns
Randomly Scattered Discharge Points
Atmospheric instability associated with cumulus clouds, or
developing or dissipating thunderstorms could cause
randomly scattered discharge points as shown in figure
4-9
.
Random discharge points are more likely to appear in the
strike display mode than in the cell display mode due to the
cell display mode’s clustering algorithm. If you observe
random discharge points, continue to monitor the screen for
developing clusters which indicate thunderstorm activity.
Figure 4-9. Randomly Scattered Discharge Points
R a t e
5
2 0 0 n m
S T R I K E
:
R a t e
3
2 0 0 n m
C E L L
:
Special Patterns
Cluster & Splattering Within 25 nmi
Figure
4-10
shows the
360
° weather view at the
25
nmi range.
One moderately active thunderstorm appears as a cluster of
discharge points at
8:30
centered
14
nmi away with a splat-
tering of discharge points throughout the
25
nmi range.
Such splattering is due to electrical discharges within
3
to
5
nmi of the aircraft and indicates that the aircraft is too close
to the thunderstorm.
