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 (+/- 3 minutes) plots of SPC Storm Reports, and showed thunderstorms that produced tornadoes and damaging winds across southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana on 24 January 2023. One tornado caused EF3 damage in the Houston, Texas area. This severe convection... Read More

GOES-16 (GOES-East) Near-Infrared “Snow/Ice” (1.61 µm) images (above) displayed industrial plumes (from sources such as power plants) that produced brief periods of light snow as they drifted over a few sites in northern Wisconsin on 22 January 2023. Particles emitted from industrial stacks acted as cloud condensation nuclei, “seeding” the surrounding supercooled water cloud... Read More

Overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided GOES-16 (GOES-East) imagery at 30-second intervals over the Mid-Atlantic states on 20 January 2023 — and Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) images (above) revealed widespread mountain waves east of the Appalachians (produced by strong westerly flow interacting with the terrain). There were numerous pilot reports of light to moderate... 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) displayed the small eye-like feature associated with a warm seclusion that developed about 200 miles southeast of the New Jersey coast on 15 January 2023. Areas of deep convection around the periphery of the seclusion occasionally... Read More