GOES-16 (GOES-East) Near-Infrared “Vegetation” (0.86 µm), Vegetation Channel Difference (0.64 µm – 0.86 µm), Day Land Cloud RGB and CIMSS Natural Color RGB images (above) showed a west-to-east oriented damage swath across Furnas and Harlan counties in far southern Nebraska n 02 July 2023  — which resulted from wind-driven large hail (wind gusts to 70 mph, hail up to... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed Category 1 Hurricane Beatriz just off the west coast of Mexico (near Ixtapa, station identifier MMZH) as a cloud-filled eye was becoming more apparent.A DMSP-17 Microwave (85 GHz) image at 1322 UTC (below) from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site indicated... Read More

GOES-18 (GOES-West) Day Land Cloud Fire RGB, Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm), “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images along with the Fire Power derived product (a component of the GOES Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm FDCA) (above) showed a wildfire southeast of Dease Lake (CWDL) in northern British Columbia that produced a pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud late in the day... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) include time-matched plots of Local Storm Reports — which showed thunderstorms that produced several tornadoes, hail to 4.00 inches in diameter and wind gusts to 70 mph (SPC Storm Reports) along with some heavy rainfall and flooding across much of Indiana (and parts of adjacent... Read More