Moderate to Severe Turbulence over the High Plains
![GOES-16 Mid-level (6.9 µm) Water Vapor images, with plots of Pilot Reports of turbulence (cyan and red), Turbulence SIGMETS (red boxes) and RAP40 model isotachs of maximum wind (yellow) [click to play animation | MP4]](https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2019/12/plains_wv-20191213_170115.png)
GOES-16 Mid-level (6.9 µm) Water Vapor images, with plots of Pilot Reports of turbulence (cyan and red), Turbulence SIGMETS (red boxes) and RAP40 model isotachs of maximum wind (yellow) [click to play animation | MP4]
Over southeastern Colorado, one aircraft encountered Severe Turbulence at an altitude of 36,000 feet at 1637 UTC, while another reported Moderate to Severe Turbulence at 37,000 feet at 1645 UTC (due to a mountain wave, which caused fluctuation in airspeed of +/- 20 knots) (below).