Meaning Stepped Leader
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Stepped Leader


A faint, negatively charged channel that emerges from the base of a thunderstorm and propagates toward the ground in a series of steps of about 1 microsecond duration and 50-100 meters in length, initiating a lightning stroke.
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Stepped Leader


A faint, negatively charged channel that emerges from the base of a thunderstorm and propagates toward the ground in a series of steps of about 1 microsecond duration and 50-100 meters in length, init [..]
Source: w1.weather.gov

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Stepped Leader


A leader which initiates the very first stroke and establishes the channel for all subsequent streamers of a lightning discharge.
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Stepped Leader


A faint, negatively charged channel that emerges from the base of a thunderstorm and propagates toward the ground in a series of steps of about 1 microsecond duration and 50-100 meters in length, init [..]
Source: weatherdudes.com

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Stepped Leader


The initial streamer of a lightning discharge; an intermittently advancing column of high ion-density which establishes the channel for subsequent return streamers and dart leaders. The peculiar characteristic of this type of leader is its step-wise growth at intervals of about fifty to one hundred microseconds. The velocity of growth during the br [..]
Source: met.tamu.edu (offline)





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