STEPS 2000 JD 00223 10 AUGUST 2000

PRELIMINARY SPRITE LOG

The following is a very preliminary listing of the times of sprites imaged at the Yucca Ridge Field Station. These are based solely on real-time visual inspection of the video monitoring system. There are most likely some additional sprites not listed and not all those below may in fact be sprites. All times are UTC. Times are likely to be within ±5 seconds of actual time.

SUMMARY: Limited camera operations at Yucca Ridge. MCS in Nebraska possibly influenced by smoke. Low flash rates but high percentage of +CGs. Plume from Montana forest fire seen on visible satellite image.

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SPRITE TIMES 00-223 10 AUG 2000

ON 0300 UTC

OFF 0530 UTC

0413.51 [S+]

0416.08 [S-]

0423.09 [S+]

0425.43 [S]

0428.06 [S+]

0429.16 [S-]

0433.40 [S] C-sprites

0439.38 [S+]

0442.20 [S]

0446.20 [S-]

0452.50 [S+]

0459.30 [S+] C-sprites