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Severe thunderstorms across the Upper Midwest

By Scott Bachmeier •

GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images, with time-matched SPC Storm Reports plotted in red [click to play animated GIF | MP4]

1-minute Mesosca’le Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) include plots of time-matched SPC Storm Reports — and showed a Mesoscale Convective System that moved east-southeastward across parts of South Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin on 23 July 2022.

GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (below) indicated that the coldest overshooting tops exhibited infrared brightness temperatures around -70 to -75ºC (white pixels within darker black enhancement).

GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images, with time-matched SPC Storm Reports plotted in blue [click to play animated GIF | MP4]

Categories: GOES-16, Severe convection