Legend The legend shows the types of strikes detected and how they are represented on the screen. Storm Icon This icon shows that there is a storm in the area.  Zoom into the icon, and the icon will be replaced with the actual strokes Most Recent Strike This icon marks the most recent strike detected by the system Sensor Status Up This icon marks where the lightning sensor is and that its current state is up.  Meaning the sensor is operating as it should and is taking part in lightning detection. Sensor Status Down This icon marks where the lightning sensor is and that its current state is down.  Meaning the sensor is not operating as it should and is not taking part in lightning detection. Sensor Status Unknown This icon marks where the lightning sensor is and that its current state is unknown.  Meaning the sensor is curently in a mode where the state is not helpful in detecting lightning, but the sensor may switch back to up mode.  Alarm Region This icon marks where a current alarm region is triggered.  The alarm region icon will be over the entire area that makes up the alarm. Error Ellipse This icon marks the error ellipse.  When you zoom down close enough to a strikle, the error ellipse will be plotted.  The error ellipse indicates the error invloved in calculating where the lightning strike occured.  The ellipse shows that the strike could have happened anywhere within the boundries of the ellipse. System Messages and Error Codes Code Description com13 This message means that the system was unable to talk to the feed that supplies the lightning data.  This could occur for serval reasons: System is down for maintence Network Connection Problem (wires, firewall, IP's) Too many users on the system System ran into an error and needs to be reset