30-second GOES-17 imagery of severe thunderstorms over Idaho
Overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided GOES-17 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images at 30-second intervals (above) — which showed thunderstorms that produced large hail and damaging winds across parts of southern Idaho (SPC Storm Reports) on 30 April 2020.To the south, strong winds at the surface were lofting plumes of blowing dust from Carson Sink in western Nevada and from the Martin Fire burn scar in northern Nevada — GOES-17 Dust Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images (below) displayed these dust plumes as brighter shades of pink. The Carson Sink plume eventually moved across Interstate 80 in north-central Nevada, while the fire burn scar plume eventually moved over Interstate 84 in southern Idaho.