30-second GOES-19 Infrared imagery of severe thunderstorms in Mississippi and Alabama
Overlapping portions of 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided GOES-19 (GOES-East) imagery at 30-second intervals — and Infrared images with plots of SPC Storm Reports (above) showed thunderstorms that produced tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds across parts of southern and central Mississippi and Alabama from the late afternoon into the early evening hours on 06 May 2026. Pronounced enhanced-V storm-top signatures were exhibited by several of the severe thunderstorms — and the coldest cloud-top infrared brightness temperature associated with pulses of overshooting tops was -80ºC (violet pixels embedded within brighter white areas). Multiple long-track tornadoes (one of which was EF3-rated) moved across southern Mississippi, and were responsible for widespread damage and several injuries.
1-minute GOES-19 Infrared images (below) included plots of NWS Warning polygons — which revealed a few Tornado Emergency (bold red) polygons in southwestern Mississippi (0000 UTC | 0010 UTC | 0056 UTC | 0105 UTC) along the path of the EF3 tornado.
1-minute GOES-19 Infrared images with plots of SPC Storm Reports and NWS Warning polygons, from 2116 UTC on 06 May to 0215 UTC on 07 May [click to play MP4 animation]