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Archive: Fri Mar 2019

Severe Thunderstorms with Above-Anvil Cirrus Plumes over Texas

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images before sunset (above) and Infrared images after sunset (below) revealed Above-Anvil Cirrus Plume (AACP) features associated with severe thunderstorms that were producing large hail (SPC storm reports) over the Texas Panhandle on 22 March 2019.A plot of 00 UTC rawinsonde data from Amarillo, Texas (below) showed... Read More