Stormscope
®
WX-500 User’s Guide
4-6
Chapter 4 – Weather Display Interpretation
Mapping Headings Past Thunderstorms
Figures
4-5
through
4-8
and the following paragraphs show
the progression of an aircraft past several thunderstorms.
Range Set at 200 nmi
Figure
4-5
shows the
360
° weather view at the
200
nmi range.
Two thunderstorms appear almost as one cluster of dis-
charge points off the nose of the aircraft, centered
180
nmi
away. A second cluster at
9:30
indicates a storm system
containing three thunderstorms.
Mapping Past Storms
Figure 4-5. Range Set at 200 nmi
R a t e
1 2 5
2 0 0 n m
S T R I K E
:
R a t e
1 1 7
2 0 0 n m
C E L L
:
