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Category: NUCAPS

Nighttime Tornado in Los Angeles

Early this morning at around 3:15 AM local time, an EF-0 tornado touched down in Pico Rivera, a community in Los Angeles County, California. It damaged several homes and knocked down numerous trees over the course of its mile-long path. Numerous instances of damaging winds were also reported, as seen... Read More

When upper air soundings are missing: NUCAPS can help

Several recent notices have announced that radiosonde-carrying balloon launches to measure the temperature and moisture (and winds) in the atmosphere are suspended due to personnel shortages. There are products available to mitigate this data shortage. NOAA-Unique Combined Atmospheric Processing System (NUCAPS) profiles (training video here) use data from CrIS/ATMS (on... Read More