The severe thunderstorm that was producing a significant long-track tornado (approximately 75 miles long, and around 1 mile wide at times) across parts of northeastern Oklahoma and southwestern Missouri on 10 May 2008 exhibited a classic “enhanced-v” signature on both GOES-12 and NOAA-16 IR imagery. The coldest cloud top brightness temperature values... Read More
On the morning of 08 May 2008, we received the following email from David Zaff, Science and Operations Officer at the National Weather Service Forecast Office at Buffalo NY:The NWS BUF office was marveling over the fine line starting from below the thumb of MI through Toronto and along the northern edge... Read More
AWIPS images of the GOES-12 6.5 µm “water vapor” channel (above) showed the development of late-season winter storm that produced heavy snowfall and blizzard conditions (with wind gusts to 64 mph or 29 m s-1 at Rapid City SD) across the Black Hills region and surrounding portions of eastern Wyoming,... Read More
Category 4 intensity Cyclone Nargis made landfall across southern Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) late in the day on 02 May 2008, packing maximum winds around 135 mph (60 m s-1), producing a storm surge of 12 feet (3.6 meters), and dumping nearly 20 inches (51 cm) of rainfall. According to... Read More
