MCS merger over northwestern Missouri
![GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (credit: Pete Porandt, AOS) [click to play MP4 animation]](https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/images/2020/06/200604_0556utc_goes16_infrared_mcs_merger.png)
GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (credit: Pete Porandt, AOS) [click to play MP4 animation]
To all of you asking us what this means/is. We basically have a back-building Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) from the east running into a forward propagating MCS from the west. It’s not out of the realm of possibility, but for us on shift we’ve never witnessed it in real-time. https://t.co/AIBLTz0cul
— NWS Kansas City (@NWSKansasCity) June 4, 2020
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 Infrared images from 0200-0800 UTC (below) include time-matched plots of SPC Storm Reports. Cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures reached -80ºC (violet pixels) around the time of the MCS merger.
GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images, with SPC storm reports plotted in cyan [click to play animation | MP4]
As the merged MCS dissipated during the day on 04 June, a Mesoscale Convective Vortex became evident on GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (below), which then moved across southeastern Missouri, far southern Illinois and western Kentucky (helping to initiate new convective activity).
![GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images [click to play animation | MP4]](https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/images/2020/06/mcv_vis-20200604_200113.png)
GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images [click to play animation | MP4]